The Global South, with a roughly 40 percent share of the global GDP and 85 percent of the world’s population, is experiencing rising importance in global affairs. As the BRICS countries head into their annual summit in the Russian city of Kazan, issues that are most important to the developing countries are taking the central spotlight.
The International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the China Media Group (CMG) jointly hosted the “Peace · Development · Security: Jointly Build a Prosperous World with a Share Future” Global South Think Tanks Forum on this occasion.
Dignitaries and government representatives, think tank scholars, and media representatives from 76 countries around the world on Wednesday participated in the forum in a combination of online and offline means to discuss the future of global development in an era of great change and turbulence.
Liu Jianchao, minister of the International …