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The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC) announced on Friday that it will impose heavy tariffs on Chinese steel, after an investigation found evidence of product dumping.

The Iranian terror regime struck seven neighboring countries following the launch of America’s “Operation Epic Fury,” which entered into its fourth day on Tuesday.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it still hopes to create a “cross-border payment infrastructure” for the BRICS economic bloc — in other words, an alternative currency that would dethrone the American dollar as the favored medium of international trade.

The Chinese Defense Ministry confirmed on Friday that its military, alongside those of Russia and South Africa, would engage in drills known as “Will for Peace 2026” off the coast of South Africa.

Peter Navarro, senior counselor to President Donald Trump for trade and manufacturing, predicted that the government of India would soon have to choose between its alliance with the United States and profitting from business with Russia and China during a special Founders Roundtable on Breitbart Fight Club on Thursday evening.

NEW YORK — Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday that peace negotiations between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remain ongoing in Doha, Qatar’s capital, and that the hope is a broader deal can be reached soon.

Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping commanded the members of BRICS, a security and trade bloc designed to undermine the United States, on Monday to “jointly defend multilateralism” during a virtual “summit.”

Brazil’s socialist president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, declared at the opening of a Chinese automobile plant that Brazil is “open for business.”

Xi Jinping told socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that China would support Brazil in “defending [its] national sovereignty.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a phone conversation on Monday with his Indian counterpart, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in which he reinforced President Donald Trump’s position that New Delhi must cut off its purchases of Russian oil.

China is willing to assist and deepen its cooperation with fellow BRICS founder nation Brazil against the “external uncertainties” of the United States and President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged his citizens to buy local products, and scheduled a rare diplomatic visit to regional adversary China, as trade negotiations with the United States came to an impasse this week.

Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told reporters in remarks on Tuesday that he had no intention of negotiating on trade with President Donald Trump following the imposition of a 50-percent tariff on his country, opting to contact Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping instead.

Russia is proposing the creation of an alternative “Silicon Valley” tech company cluster on Cuba’s Isla de la Juventud island for companies within the BRICS anti-U.S. bloc and Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) countries in Latin America, the Cuban state media outlet Cubadebate reported over the weekend.

China and Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday, to explore the possibility of jointly building a transcontinental railroad from the east coast of Brazil to the west coast of Peru – directly to a port funded and partially owned by Beijing.

Cuba’s figurehead “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel on Sunday delivered an impassioned screed against America President Donald Trump’s recent measures against the communist regime during the annual summit of the anti-U.S. BRICS coalition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The BRICS security and trade coalition is concluding its annual summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Monday, publishing a “declaration” notably missing some of the most strident anti-American policies it previously promoted, including the creation of a unified currency to challenge the U.S. dollar.

President Donald Trump said late Sunday that imports from countries aligning with “the Anti-American policies of BRICS” would face an additional ten percent tariff.

China hosted the defense ministers of Russia and Iran – alongside Belarus, Pakistan, and Kyrgyzstan – on Wednesday for a meeting on global security in the aftermath of the most destructive military engagement against Tehran in recent memory.

The South China Morning Post, citing anonymous sources, reported on Tuesday that genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping will be skipping the upcoming BRICS summit in Brazil due to a “scheduling conflict,” the first time in the history of the coalition that Xi would be absent.

Russia has “stable, trusting ties” with Israel and partnership with Iran, they claimed this week as it warned the U.S. against “interfering”. 

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf on Tuesday called for Iran and Cuba to bolster their relations during his official visit to the communist-ruled nation, stressing that both nations have “common goals, allies, and enemies.”

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf on Sunday vowed to stand against “global arrogance” alongside Venezuela’s socialist regime during his official visit to Caracas, calling for a deepening of economic ties between the anti-U.S. regimes.

The anti-American BRICS coalition largely remained silent this week as the president of one of its core members, South Africa, faced a humiliating excoriation at the White House.

China’s government-run Global Times propaganda newspaper defended the government of South Africa in its coverage of President Cyril Ramaphosa visiting the White House on Thursday, claiming that President Donald Trump’s evidence of normalized genocidal sentiment against white people in the country was a “conspiracy theory.”

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin expressed firm support to the government of India and accepted an invitation to visit the country in a phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.

A meeting of the top diplomats in BRICS, an anti-American commercial and security coalition led by China, reportedly ended on Tuesday with newer members of the group Egypt and Ethiopia refusing to sign a joint statement, sending a message of discord the more powerful original members of the group had hoped to avoid.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says China and North Korea should be included in ceasefire negotiations for the war in Ukraine.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan claimed on Monday that his country was interested in becoming a member of the anti-American BRICS coalition but never received an invite and that BRICS had suspended allowing new members at all.

President Donald Trump has reportedly been pushing India to purchase more of its military hardware from the United States, dangling relief from the heavy tariffs he might impose against the other BRICS nations as an incentive.

China expects fellow members of the BRICS economic bloc to push back against President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats.

Prominent South Africans reacted angrily on Sunday to President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on the BRICS countries if they tried to create an alternative to the U.S. dollar as the global reserve and trade currency.

President-elect Donald Trump threatened BRICS countries with a 100 percent tariff if they tried to “create a new BRICS Currency” or to support another currency to “replace” the U.S. dollar.