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What I keep pointing out here is that individual countries that make up BRICS are doing well because of BRICS. That's the system of trade they all participate in that's centred on China which is at the core of BRICS industrial development.

certainly there is no co-operation or consensus as to what to do.

I've repeatedly explained that BRICS is not in a business of having ideological alignment, It's a trade org, plain and simple. The only thing you mentioned that's at all relevant is that BRICS still haven't agreed on a common currency. This stuff takes time to do, and the fact that it hasn't happened yet is certainly not an indication of BRICS not being functional.

They would still rather cut each others’ throats than do a co-operative venture.

Once again, you could've just googled the info yourself. But here are just a few examples for you.

• $100 Billion Development Investment Fund between Abu Dhabi Investment Group & Banco do Brasil https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/business/2025/07/08/abu-dhabi-investment-group-signs-100bn-investment-pact-with-brazil/
• BRICS Special Economic Zones Cooperation Agreement https://arab-digital-economy.org/?p=23229&lang=en
• BRICS Cross-Border Payments Initiative led by Brazil with all BRICS members participating https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/internacional/noticia/2025-07/negotiations-progress-brics-own-payment-system
• Russia-South Africa Orthopedic Technology Project https://bricswomen.com/2025/10/23/social-entrepreneurship-development-in-brics-countries-launch-of-russia-south-africa-project-in-orthopoedics/
• BRICS Science and Innovation Incubation Park between Russia, Brazil, India, and South Africa http://en.fao.xm.gov.cn/2025-12/19/c_1148983.htm
• Tropical Forests Forever Facility between Brazil & China https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202507/09/WS686dc2d2a31000e9a573aedc.html

And the links regarding China all point to what I said - China is turning towards its domestic market, and is looking to export high value items while switching low-value production to its home market.

You might be slightly misinterpreting the core concept behind the dual circulation strategy. It is definitely true that Beijing wants to boost domestic consumption and insulate their economy from geopolitical shocks but they are absolutely not doing that by sacrificing their global export engine. Dual circulation is basically designed to make the internal domestic market and the external international market reinforce each other rather than treating them as a zero sum game. The idea that Chinese manufacturing capacity cannot keep up with its own domestic demand and that exporting a toaster somehow takes a toaster away from a local family actually completely contradicts the current macroeconomic reality over there.

Right now China is dealing with massive structural overcapacity and significant deflationary pressures precisely because their factories produce vastly more goods than their domestic middle class can afford to absorb. Their existing capacity is exactly why they are currently flooding global markets with everything from everyday consumer items to advanced electric vehicles and green energy tech. They are definitely trying to move up the value chain and they are offshoring some low end production to places like Vietnam but they still need global export markets to keep their industrial base running and prevent domestic employment problems. So rather than turning inward and leaving the global market behind they are actually trying to dominate both spheres simultaneously by using a strong domestic base to build bulletproof supply chains while aggressively expanding their export footprint.

The timeline is 5 to 7 years from now.

And the point you evidently missed is that Germany doesn't have 5 to 7 years. It's in a crisis right now with its industries collapsing. In 5-7 years Germany is going to be completely fucked. Also, it wasn't Russia that cut off the flow of cheap gas. It was the EU making an idiotic decision not to buy Russian gas directly. A pretty big difference there.

Actually, Canada doubled LNG sales out of BC in just one year.

The second train online in Kitimat and hitting that 14 million tonnes per year mark might be a milestone for the Canadian economy but you really have to zoom out and look at the Middle East to understand the actual scale of the global gas trade. When you compare the BC setup to what Qatar was doing until Hormuz closed, the volume difference is staggering. LNG Canada is celebrating reaching its maximum current capacity of 14 million tonnes after years of complex development and billions in investment. Meanwhile Qatar is sitting on a baseline capacity of 77 million tonnes per annum and they were actively executing the massive North Field expansion project. That expansion alone was going to add several massive new trains that will push their total output to 126 million tonnes in the next couple of years and eventually to 142 million tonnes by the end of the decade. To put that into perspective the amount of brand new capacity Qatar was just bolting onto their existing infrastructure is essentially equivalent to building four or five entirely new LNG Canada facilities from scratch. Canada is like a boutique craft brewery operating in a market dominated by an industrial beverage conglomerate. It's not replacing the LNG that's off the market now, not even close.

And your links to the European manufacturing situation are out of date. The recovery has already started.

Most of the links I gave you are from this year. Again, I keep explaining this, and you keep ignoring it. But structural issues have not gone away. Europe lost access to cheap energy, and that problem has not been solved. Therefore, no meaningful recovery is possible. If you look at the actual numbers in your link it's very clear there's no real change happening:

The HCOB PMI business activity index in the eurozone manufacturing sector rose to 50.8 points in February from 49.5 points in January, reaching a 44-month high. In Germany, where the trend is in line with the European average, the index rose to 50.9 points from 49.1 points a month earlier.