Toma nota.../Take note...

Se trata de un bloque que incluye a Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica,
identificado con las iniciales del nombre de estos países (BRICS).
Aunque se trata de sólo cinco países, éstos abarcan el 42% de la población mundial,
el 23% del PIB global y el 30% del territorio del planeta.
El grupo se reunió por primera vez en 2001 y funcionan como un bloque
desde 2009, celebrando reuniones anuales de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno.
Este año fueron convocados para reunirse en Brasilia
a partir del martes 12 de noviembre hasta el jueves 14.

 Una cumbre BRICS en medio de tensiones sudamericanas

La pauta del encuentro tratará los temas de ciencia, tecnología e innovación, la economía digital, la salud y la lucha contra la corrupción y el terrorismo.

São Paulo, Nov. 13.– La XI Cumbre de los BRICS, que reúne a los líderes de los principales países emergentes del mundo, comienza hoy miércoles en Brasilia, en medio de una serie de convulsiones políticas en Sudamérica, pero debe pasar de largo por esos temas y concentrarse en su pauta central, cuyo lema es «Crecimiento económico para un futuro innovador», asegura el ministro de Seguridad Institucional (GSI), el general Augusto Heleno, uno de los organizadores y principales asesores del presidente Jair Bolsonaro.

La moneda única es un agente unificador que podría apuntar hacia una Europa federada. Además, obliga a los gobiernos de los Estados partes a manejar su presupuesto con discreción para evitar los déficit y el creciente endeudamiento que conduce a la devaluación, la inflación y hasta a la suspensión de pagos en los casos más agudos de derroche presupuestario. Además, hace que el turismo sea más asequible y facilita el libre comercio a nivel continental. El problema principal que enfrenta es la resistencia de las partes a ceder este elemento de su soberanía, sobre todo por tratarse de un elemento fundamental de la economía nacional. 

Los gobiernos nacionales se ven así bastante atados de manos para muchas decisiones económicas.

La crisis del €uro es provocada por la irresponsabilidad de algunos gobiernos que violan las limitaciones que les exige una moneda única. Esto da lugar a que países como Hungría estén insinuando su desmantelación y otros como el Reino Unido hayan rechazado aceptarla. Da pie también a que países como Rusia traten de debilitar ese factor de unidad."

Hungría llama a desmantelar el euro

Budapest actúa como avanzadilla de Putin dentro de la Unión Europea

Berlín, Nov.5.– «¿El euro? Hay que reconocerlo: ha sido un error». Así de lapidario se ha expresado el presidente del Banco Central de Hungría, Gyorgy Matolcsy, en una columna publicada por el rotativo británico «Financial Times». Justificando la salida de Reino Unido y lanzando un severo ataque contra la moneda única, afirma que «ha llegado el momento de buscar una salida a la trampa del €uro», en un gesto público de pleitesía a las pretensiones rusas de influencia sobre su país.

 In 2013 China surpassed the United States as the largest trading nation in the world. China became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. China’s economic success lays bare an uncomfortable historical truth: No matter its membership in WTO, preaching ‘free trade’ doesn't mean that it really practices it. However, today real 'free trade' with China might lie in the horizon under the US and EU persistent pressure. Today, China's main export markets, in order of importance, are the European Union (20.4%), United States (17.7%), Hong Kong (13.4%), and Japan (8.1%).

In China, Macron wants to take Beijing 'at its word' on free trade

"Since this fair is supposed to demonstrate China's openness, well, let's prove it with access to its agrobusiness market and progress on the EU-China deals,"

Shanghai, Nov.3 (Reuters).– French President Emmanuel Macron will seek to make China deliver on promises to grant more access to foreign companies, eyeing agribusiness and finance, advisers said ahead of his arrival in Shanghai for a giant import fair.

Macron, who will attend the fair along with other European officials including incoming EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan, would take China "at its word" that it aims to open itself up to trade, a presidential adviser said ahead of the Nov. 4-6 trip.

US Attorney General William (Bill) Barr committed an absolute heresy to modern ears when he said that “moral values must rest on authority independent of men’s will. They must flow from a transcendent Supreme Being.” This can’t be right! yelp the modernists. We get to decide those things, not some unelected Supreme Being! Religion sounds just as bad as the Electoral College, which is why we need to get rid of both! cry the relativist cadre. The mainstream press and the social media reaction makes the US Attorney General's statements appear as offensive in his speech at the (Roman Catholic) University of Notre Dame last week. Yet the A.G. was simply spelling out the reality of life...

Bill Barr Is Right. That’s Why He Terrifies the Left

by Robert R. Reilly  

Attorney General William Barr was excoriated by the mainstream press and the social media offenderati for his speech at the (Roman Catholic) University of Notre Dame last week. Yet the A.G. was simply spelling out the reality of life in modern America: here is what we have lost, here are the reasons why, and here’s what’s happening as a result. We won the American Revolution, but we lost the sexual revolution—with all its attendant debasement.

Those responsible for the loss seem incapable of recognizing the sequence of cause and effect spelled out by Barr. Journalists who have specialized in providing rationalizations for the release of our unbridled passions are clueless as to the magnitude of our national decline. That’s to be expected: they are symptoms of it. They thought the moral pigpen they were playing in was cost free; when the hefty bill arrives, they blame the waiter and try to bolt (“I don’t remember ordering two filet mignons, La Madeline au Truffle, or the Château Latour.”).

Thailand is a country located in the centre of mainland Southeast Asia.
Located wholly within the tropics, Thailand encompasses diverse ecosystems,
including the hilly forested areas of the northern frontier,
the fertile rice fields of the central plains,  the broad plateau of the northeast,
and the rugged coasts along the narrow southern peninsula.
Until the second half of the 20th century, Thailand was primarily
an agricultural country, but since the 1960s increasing numbers of people
have moved to Bangkok, the capital, and to other cities.
This kingdom was never brought under foreign domination
and preserves its independence until this day.

Thailand embraces New Economy

Businesses and investors in advanced and green industries are choosing Thailand for its ecosystem for success.

Bangkok, Oct.22.– There was a time when Thailand was best known for exports of rice, garments and textiles, rubber products, electric appliances and combustion-engine vehicles. But times have changed. Today, the Kingdom of Thailand is increasingly recognized for biotechnology, cutting-edge medical equipment, electric vehicles, robotics and artificial intelligence, blockchain and financial technology.

Thailand is welcoming investment in high-technology and green industries, and investors in those industries are keen on the change taking place in the Kingdom.