Yangzhou, a historical Chinese city located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, is one of the country’s most popular spring travel destinations, renowned for its romantic combination of classical Chinese gardens and traditional architecture. On March 30-31, the BRICS Seminar on Governance and Cultural Exchange Forum took place in this city in Jiangsu Province, gathering more than 200 participants from the group of the world’s five leading emerging economies, i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
This peaceful setting perhaps even amplified participants’ sense of current global turbulence due to the disparity between the West and East, North and South.
“The old world order dominated by the West, and the United States in particular, is crumbling. But the new world order is yet to be born,” Sudheendra Kulkarni, an Indian scholar and aide to the country’s former Prime Minister Atal Vajpayee, said in his remarks at the
