South Africa is the most recent member of BRICS (April 14th, 2011; China)
Okay, this title is outrageously lame, but wait, there’s more:
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According to the French Agency of Foreign Investments, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and Southafrica) have increased their investments in french businesses of 10% each year since 2003. So this post is going to be really nice to you, BRICS guys. We love you. Invest. Doesn’t matter global warming, child labour, the fact that these countries are obviously going to outstand us within a few months.
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This article from Le Monde (in french) shows quite accurately how these countries, which form sort of an alter-G5, are currently asked to help the Eurozone to get out of its monetary crisis.
However, this is not yet the time for a Marshall Plan coming from Russia and China (my grandfather would not believe it is an actual possibility for Europe). But for how much time? I kind of screwed up the positive angle i drew on top of this post, let’s say it’s Frenchman Melancholia (from its greek origin, black bile).
Decrypting Enigma 
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