BRICS and EU pushing for the Global South
Global North Blue, Global South Red
( via Wikipedia)
There have been many unintended consequences of the Donald Trump presidency.
China is looking at closer relations with what is referred to as the Global South:
China’s Xi pushes AI and ‘Global South’ opportunity amid US trade war
April 29, 2025
BEIJING, April 29 (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping used a visit to Shanghai on Tuesday to push for breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and underscore China’s leading role in the “Global South”. …
Xi’s Shanghai trip, his first to China’s main international financial hub since November 2023, comes at a time when the tariff fight with the U.S. has raised the stakes for global economic growth, and as Beijing pursues AI development in the wake of the global success of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.
On Tuesday, he urged Shanghai to accelerate efforts to turn itself into a technological and innovation hub with global influence and strive to be at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) development and governance, state news agency Xinhua reported. …
In addition, the Chinese president visited the Shanghai-based New Development Bank, a multilateral lender of BRICS member nations, and met its president, former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Xinhua said.
China is ready to strengthen project cooperation with the bank and share development experience with other member countries, Xi said during his visit, adding that the collective rise of the Global South had become an important force in safeguarding world peace, the report said.
The visit to the NDB underlines how Xi wants to continue to position China as the leader of the Global South, Wu said. “China wants to offer an alternative to the world against the U.S.-dominant global order.”
The concept of the Global South emerged to designate developing, emerging or lower-income countries, mostly in the southern hemisphere, and replace the term “Third World” generally used during the 1945-90 Cold War. https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-xi-lauds-ai-progress-meets-brics-bank-shanghai-visit-2025-04-29/
BRICS is becoming a key mechanism of partnership between the countries of the Global South. This is reported by CCTV+, a partner of TV BRICS, referring to the press conference of Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun.
He commented thus on the journalists‘ question about the upcoming BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting to be held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on 28-29 April. https://tvbrics.com/en/news/china-s-foreign-ministry-brics-mechanism-emerging-as-backbone-of-global-south-cooperation/
Yes, the BRICS nations have been meeting.
So, have the Europeans.
Although paused for 90 days, the EU faces a new 20% tariff on up to €380 billion ($416 billion) worth of exports to the US. Policymakers in Brussels are weighing a similar response to China’s. The EU says it plans to reach out to countries in the Indo-Pacific and Global South in a bid to counter US protectionism.
During a three-day visit to Vietnam this week, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez insisted that Europe explore new markets and said his government was “firmly committed” to opening up his country and Europe to more trade with Southeast Asia.
But Varg Folkman, a policy analyst at the European Policy Centre (EPC) warned that Europe will struggle to replace exports across the Atlantic with other markets as the US economy is both “larger and wealthier.” 04/11/25 https://www.dw.com/en/trump-tariffs-trade-eu-car-industry-cheap-goods-wto/a-72176478
The BRICS+ alliance finished a two-day conference today:
April 29, 2025
BRICS … Brazil said the group’s foreign ministers expressed “serious concern at the prospect of a fragmented global economy and the weakening of multilateralism”.
The United States has implemented a new tariffs-focused trade policy under President Donald Trump, raising concerns about a global economic slowdown, although the statement did not name the U.S. …
The expanded BRICS group, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa as well as new joiners Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Iran, faces daunting challenges from U.S. trade actions. “The ministers voiced serious concerns about the rise of unjustified unilateral protectionist measures inconsistent with WTO rules, including indiscriminate raising of reciprocal tariffs and non-tariff measures,” the statement said. https://www.reuters.com/world/brics-ministers-fail-reach-joint-statement-brazil-warns-against-protectionism-2025-04-29/
Notice the following map:
Map of BRICS nations and prospective members
( via Wikipedia)
Consider if you superimpose the BRICS map over the map at the beginning of this post for the “Global South,” nearly all the world except North America, Europe, and Australia are covered.
And when you consider that the European Union is trying to make inroads into the Global South because of Trump Administration policies, you can see basically the whole world uniting against at least some USA policies. Particularly when you consider that Donald Trump has also upset Canada and Mexico in North America.
That said, here is something related to the BRICS:
BRICS Nations Accelerate Efforts to Establish New International Payment System to Fight Back Against U.S. Tariffs
April 28, 2025
Pepe Escobar, the Brazilian international journalist, …explains how BRICS, which will meet this summer in Brazil, is now accelerating their plans to implement a new international payment system so countries can bypass the U.S. banking system and the U.S. dollar, as they begin to exclude the U.S. market due to these high tariffs.
Escobar mentions the analogy that President Trump is using for his tariffs, which is that the U.S. is a “store” and that any country who wants to buy U.S. goods in this “store” has to meet Trump’s pricing based on tariffs.
Escobar responds: “But what he doesn’t realize is that nobody wants to buy anything in this store anymore” as the BRICS nations begin to reshape their supply chains and exports. …
He also explains how Iran is a huge part of BRICS plans for the future, and the implementation of the new Silk Road trade initiatives. https://healthimpactnews.com/2025/brics-nations-accelerate-efforts-to-establish-new-international-payment-system-to-fight-back-against-u-s-tariffs/
Related to BRICS and the USA dollar, notice the following which is in my book Lost Tribes and Prophecies: What will happen to Australia, the British Isles, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States of America?:
Those in Iran and some of the Arab lands, along with nations such as Brazil, China, and India have discussed plans for the removal of the dominance of the U.S.A. in global trade as well. The former (again current) President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, even claimed that eliminating the U.S. dollar’s reserve currency status was one of the reasons that the BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) was formed in the first place. [i] Others have noted that bypassing the USA dollar is still an object of BRICS—and officially BRICS nations “are currently working on setting up a new global reserve currency,”[ii] which may have gold-backing.[iii] The expansion of BRICS (which is in progress) may ultimately even hurt Australian trade as well as “severely weaken primacy of the US Dollar as an international currency.”[iv]
The Bible clearly warns against cheapening the money supply and encourages having money hold its value (Proverbs 25:4 Isaiah 1:25, Ezekiel 22:18-22). Debt is also warned against (Habakkuk 2:6-8). Yet policies enacted under the Obama, Trump, and Biden Administrations, following certain other administrations, have ignored these warnings.
[i] Escobar P. BRICS was created as a tool of attack: Lula. Asia Times, August 28, 2019
[ii] BRICS developing new global reserve currency – Putin. RT, June 22, 2022
[iii] Helms K. Economists Discuss Russia, China Potentially Developing Gold-Backed Currency. BRICS Information Portal, November 11, 2022
[iv]Hunter M. BRICS Is Becoming The Big Kid On The Block: Implications For Australia – Analysis. Eurasia Review, November 1, 2022
Notice also something from my book :
Notice what Donald Trump stated in late 2024:
“The idea that the BRICS countries are trying to move away from the dollar while we stand by and watch is over,” Trump wrote in a Nov. 30 Truth Social post. …
“We require a commitment from these countries that they will neither create a new BRICS currency, nor back any other currency to replace the mighty U.S. dollar or, they will face 100 percent tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. economy,” the president-elect recently wrote.
In October, speaking at the Economic Club of Chicago with Bloomberg, Trump warned … “We have to have that. We cannot lose it,” Trump said. “You’ll go to Third World status in this country because you take a look at the way things are running.” (Durden T. De-Dollarization Effort In Spotlight After Trump’s Tariff Threat On BRICS. ZeroHedge, December 3, 2024)
Yes, the impact of the USA dollar losing its reserve status would be horrible–and even worse than Donald Trump asserted. And things like 100% tariffs are inflationary.
The BRICS+ nations, which compose nearly half the population of the world, still want to bypass the US dollar.
US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened 100 percent tariffs on BRICS nations if they replace the dollar in international trade.
However, Brazil has indicated that it aims to boost the effort during its presidency of BRICS. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government has said its objective is the “development of means of payment” to facilitate trade between member countries.[i]
Furthermore, some suspect that more countries in BRICS+ may destroy the ‘petrodollar’ system that supports the dollar.[ii]
The USA dollar will ultimately crash and be worthless. That “pride” of American power will be broken (cf. Leviticus 26:19).
[i] Indonesia joins BRICS group of emerging economies. Aljazeera, January 7, 2025
[ii] Dourian K. Are the BRICS gearing up to challenge the petrodollar? Middle East Economy, October 10, 2024
One day the US dollar will be toppled–but that will not fully happen in 2025. But let me add that the Bible teaches that a coming European power will accumulate gold too (cf. Daniel 11:38,43; see also The Plain Truth About Gold in Prophecy. How Should a Christian View Gold?).
Based upon several biblical prophecies, I have long written that the Asians and Europeans will cooperate, for a time, and eliminate the USA and its Anglo-Saxon-Celtic descended allies. They will divide their lands among them per Daniel 11:39, and many of the survivors will be made slaves (for more details check out the article Will the Anglo-Saxon Nations be Divided and Have People Taken as Slaves?).
It should be added that part of the purpose of the Euro was to bypass the USA dollar for international trade. And, that has happened completely within the Eurozone block in the EU.
Steps towards pushing away the Anglo-American dominance of the world for the past couple of centuries is happening.
Donald Trump has made many statements and endorsed policies that are impacting the current world order–many of which will end up harmful to the USA.
Although BRICS will not dominate the world economically like the coming European Beast power will, the BRICS nations and their actions will have major impacts on the world.
Related to BRICS and the USA dollar, we put together the following video:
BRICS Push Aside USA Dollar
The BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have as one of their founding goals, to eliminate the need to use USA dollars in cross-border trade. Six additional nations have been invited to join BRICS in 2024, and India reports that six more are also being looked at. The BRICS nations have already began to drop the USA dollar for some cross-border trading with Russia and China indicating that they had almost done so completely in late 2023. What will happen to the economy and value of the USA dollar if more and more nations stop using it as a primary reserve and trading currency? What about hyperinflation? Does the Bible prophesy destruction for a highly indented nation in the end time? Is the USA the most indebted nation of all time? What about the intent and use of the Euro? Will Europe and Asia cooperate to eliminate the USA and its British-descended allies?
Here is a link to our video: BRICS Push Aside USA Dollar.
A lot is happening.
The USA and its dollar will no longer remain “king.”
As Jesus said: “And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!” (Mark 13:37).
Some items of possibly related interest may include:
Lost Tribes and Prophecies: What will happen to Australia, the British Isles, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States of America? Where did those people come from? Can you totally rely on DNA? What about other peoples? Do you really know what will happen to Europe and the English-speaking peoples? What about Africa, Asia, South America, and the Islands? This free online book provides scriptural, scientific, historical references, and commentary to address those matters. Here are links to related sermons: Lost tribes, the Bible, and DNA; Lost tribes, prophecies, and identifications; 11 Tribes, 144,000, and Multitudes; Israel, Jeremiah, Tea Tephi, and British Royalty; Gentile European Beast; Royal Succession, Samaria, and Prophecies; Asia, Islands, Latin America, Africa, and Armageddon; When Will the End of the Age Come?; Rise of the Prophesied King of the North; Christian Persecution from the Beast; WWIII and the Coming New World Order; and Woes, WWIV, and the Good News of the Kingdom of God.
The End of US Dollar Dominance Is the USA losing its economic status? What about the petro-gold-yuan? A related video is also available: US Dollar being challenged by Gold-Petro-Yuan.
The Plain Truth About Gold in Prophecy. How Should a Christian View Gold? What do economists and the Bible teach about gold? Gold and silver may drop in value. Inflation/deflation? What do Christians need to know about gold and silver? Two videos of related interest may be: Germany, Gold, and the US Dollar and Silver, Science, and Scripture.
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