For decades, the global economy has operated on a financial infrastructure that was built for a different era. Today, as geopolitical fractures deepen, the vulnerabilities of relying on a single, Western-led payment messaging system have become impossible to ignore. When access to the global financial system is used as a geopolitical lever, the need for…
Think BRICS participated in the BRICS Urban Future Forum in Moscow, a leading global platform bringing together over 13,000 attendees from 30+ countries to define the development agenda of BRICS megacities.
The forum explored the tension between competing visions for urban futures: from Yanis Varoufakis's warning about "techno-feudalism" and cloud capital controlling human behavior, to…
Think BRICS participated directly in the XVI BRICS Leaders' Summit in Kazan, a historic milestone for the multipolar world. The summit marked the expansion of BRICS with new members including Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, and the UAE joining the founding nations.
Leaders from 24 countries gathered to discuss reducing dollar dependency, advancing alternative payment systems, and increasing bilateral trade…

