BRICS Gridlock and Lock Down New Delhi
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In a related set of developments in the Indian capital of New Delhi last week, major roads were cordoned off or clogged for hours (a dangerous thing given the red-blooded Delhi driver's reputation for road rage), Tibetan residents (and others mistaken for Tibetans) were rounded up and detained -- and economists, foreign-policy analysts and naysayers came crawling out of the woodwork (or its cyberspace equivalent).
The occasion was the fourth summit of BRICS, the annual conclave of the world's major developing economies -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and, since 2010, South Africa.