potential and challenges -- Ambiguity or strategic play? distilling india’s BRICS relations -- China, economic partnership …, common development and Brics -- Manna from heaven-South Africa’s search for relevance in the BRICS constellation -- China-India …Introduction -- Autochthonous routes to democracy: assessing the BRICS polities -- BRICS, Brazil and Africa: economic …

and the Belt and Road Initiative -- Chapter 5: Brazil and the Belt and Road Initiative -- Chapter 6: Business Preferences …). Since Beijing launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, 3/4 of countries in the world have engaged with China …'s arrangement of promoting global physical and digital connectivity. This still leaves a quarter of them that have refused China …