BRICS Seminar: Mushahid Hussain criticises US sanctions against Pakistan, China

[Asfandyar Bhittani]

Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed was invited to give the keynote address at the BRICS Seminar in Moscow on Monday.
He said, "Pakistan looks forward to joining BRICS," and welcomed "winds of change blowing all across South Asia which reject hegemony, status quo and seek change", referring to recent radical changes in the Maldives, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

As a consequence, he said the so-called ‘Indo-Pacific Strategy is now drowning in the waters of the Indian Ocean’. He criticised the recent US sanctions against Pakistan and China, terming them ‘immoral, unjust, unacceptable and illegal’ as sanctions under International Law can only be imposed by the UN Security Council.

Senator Mushahid also condemned Western hypocrisy and double standards on Palestine. He said the Global Order was marked by turbulence and transformation, with two contrasting narratives.

He added that China and the Global South are focused on connectivity and trade and economic cooperation, conversely, the US is busy pushing a New Cold War with a militaristic mindset, evident in yesterday’s QUAD meeting hosted by President Joe Biden, where he again showed his China obsession.

Senator Mushahid urged the attendants to define a new narrative based on emerging ground realities to counter propaganda, fake news and disinformation.

For the future, he put forward a 3-D strategy for BRICS: democratisation of the world order based on multipolarity, multilateralism, UN Charter and International Law; demilitarisation of international relations, rejecting any new military alliances like ‘Asian NATO’, QUAD or AUKUS; and, dedollarisation of the world economy and greater trade in non-dollar currencies.

Senator Mushahid was warmly welcomed by the host, Mikhail Shvydkoy, Special Envoy of President Putin, as well as China’s Minister for International Communication, Wang Gang.

Apart from Russia and China, other countries represented at the BRICS Seminar included India, Brazil, South Africa, Egypt, Iran and UAE. Senator Mushahid was the only representative from a non-BRICS member state.

 

[nahtanbob]

Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed was invited to give the keynote address at the BRICS Seminar in Moscow on Monday.
He said, "Pakistan looks forward to joining BRICS," and welcomed "winds of change blowing all across South Asia which reject hegemony, status quo and seek change", referring to recent radical changes in the Maldives, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

The Senator has no problem welcoming change in other countries. How about change in Pakistan ?

 

[Asfandyar Bhittani]

The Senator has no problem welcoming change in other countries. How about change in Pakistan ?

Don't threaten us with Good times.

Jokes aside, any change in Pakistan will still not change position on BRICs and whatever the senator said here. If not all, One thing majority of Pakistan agrees on is that Pakistan needs to get out of American hedgemony and South Asia out of india's.

 

[SaadH]

Don't threaten us with Good times.

Jokes aside, any change in Pakistan will still not change position on BRICs and whatever the senator said here. If not all, One thing majority of Pakistan agrees on is that Pakistan needs to get out of American hedgemony and South Asia out of india's.

It's just a small matter of getting past those who hold all the biggest guns and are opposed to this paradigm shift.

Besides, BRICS has a huge three inch US mole called India, ever ready to be the spoiler...don't hold your breath over anything meaningful coming out of BRICS that will seriously challenge US hegemony.

 

[Asfandyar Bhittani]

It's just a small matter of getting past those who hold all the biggest guns and are opposed to this paradigm shift.

Besides, BRICS has a huge three inch US mole called India, ever ready to be the spoiler...don't hold your breath over anything meaningful coming out of BRICS that will seriously challenge US hegemony.

There is no challenging the US until China decides to forge military alliances instead of purely economic projects, whether that be SCO or BRI or BRICs. None were designed to actually challenge the US hedgemony which is primarily a military one first and economic second.

For Pakistan, even BRICs is a lame duck as was SCO. Good to check another diplomatic box but nobody sane expects much from it, militarily or economically.