Lord Jim O'Neill
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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One of them is a young guy called Brian Wong, who's a professor at Hong Kong University.
He authored a book with a few others a few months ago about the motives of all the individual BRICS plus countries about what they get out of being in this club.
And it's absolutely, for any students of international relations, I mean, it's absolutely fascinating stuff.
And buried in it is this complete competing, you know,
international relations issue between China and India.
And in addition to their own bilateral challenges, they both see themselves as the real underlying leader of the global south.
And so there's many, many, many aspects of that.
And importantly, going to the scale of the ambition of this institute, one of our eight papers
which, as I say, are underway, is to explore some policy ideas.
What are the genuine areas where China and India could cooperate better and properly?
And that would be extremely good for the coherence of the BRICS Plus, because amongst their own challenges is if you have China and India taking pot shots at each other intellectually and policy-wise, then there's not much chance of the BRICS Plus really functioning, because they are the two places that really matter.
Flip side of it...
is if they do really coordinate properly on things, then it opens up a whole host of new questions, including some of these that occasionally come up about the future of the global monetary system, for example, and global trade.
If China and India genuinely wanted to explore free trade with each other,
Nobody in this country would give a damn what Donald Trump says about tariffs because it wouldn't matter.
So I've partially changed my mind about this in the last 18 months in a limited way.
I think the idea that the BRICS countries can create a genuine alternative to the dollar
in the existing monetary system is is kind of crazy if it was between them that that would require the chinese authorities to give up the independence of the central bank of china it would require you know same for the indians and it's not going to happen um in my lifetime however two things have forced me to shift my thinking a little bit firstly of course
Like other people with international monetary experience, I think about it in the context of the modern international monetary system.
You know, when I first started working, fortunately, timing-wise for me, it was on the back of the boom in the city.
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