Opinions
How BRICS Cements China’s Global Rise
China’s hosting of the 2017 BRICS summit in Xiamen on the heels of the Doklam dispute with India serves to cement its role as a new global power. China shows that it is interested in being perceived as a peaceful power that supports an alternative ‘win-win’ globalization for the developing world, Valdai Club expert Andrei Vinogradov, Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, believes.