Chinese leader Xi Jinping is hosting

the annual BRICS Summit.

And he's proving,

that Xi's a BRICS house!

Welcome back to China Uncensored.

I'm your host Chris Chappell.

This week was the annual BRICS Summit

in Xiamen, China.

It's a meeting between the world's l

argest developing economies—

Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

Personally I think they should have

gone with SBRIC

or maybe BRISC.

That's BRISC, baby.

Together, these five BRICS countries

make up 40% of the world's population,

25% of the world's landmass,

and almost 30% of the global GDP.

Now while you might be thinking:

This BRICS Summit sounds like

the most boring meeting on Earth.

Fortunately, state-run China Central Television

knows how to make it cool.

With a Fast and Furious style death race!

On a volcano!

The meeting faces many challenges,

like dangerous roads!

Lava explosions!

And electric rocks shaped like letters!

But when the road starts to

crumble underneath them,

these five rivals will join together

and accomplish the impossible!

Jumping over a cliff!

Wow, the BRICS Summit

must be so cool!

Let's take a look at the actual footage.

Almost as cool?

Now I understand why CCTV did that animation.

So what did the real-life versions

of those race car drivers discuss

during their three-day extravaganza?

One thing,

as I mentioned earlier in the broadcast,

is that they're all angry at North Korea

for trying to upstage their party

with a nuclear test.

But looming over the three day summit

was the intense rivalry smoldering

between the two biggest countries:

India and China.

For about 70 days,

India and China were locked in a serious border dispute

that threatened to turn into full blown war.

And by threatened,

I mean—Chinese state-run media

was threatening war.

And that was just a symptom

of much deeper tensions

between the two nations.

The dispute was eventually resolved,

with both sides saving face,

just in time for the BRICS summit.

And the two leaders both seemed amicable enough...

But things are far from smooth between India and China.

They're still economic and political rivals.

Oh, and military rivals.

On the Friday before the summit,

China held live fire drills in the Indian Ocean.

Or as the Chinese Communist Party calls it,

the “Southwest China Sea.”

I'm just kidding.

I think.

But speaking of territorial disputes,

those also made their way into the summit.

Xi Jinping was pushing his One Belt One Road Initiative.

He says it will link China and the rest of Eurasia together

for mutual economic prosperity and high-speed car chases.

But India considers it a debt-fueled disaster

that will see China surrounding India

and threatening its sovereignty.

A huge part of the plan involves

the China Pakistan Economic Corridor—

which would go through territory

that India disputes with Pakistan.

Pakistan is of course a major rival to India

over more than just territory.

India considers Pakistan

a source of terrorism.

Yes, terrorism.

That's another point

that China and India square off over.

Since China is pretty buddy buddy with Pakistan,

the Chinese regime has used its spot

as permanent member on the UN security council

to block India's attempts to have the leader

of the Pakistan-based terrorist group

Jaish-e-Mohammad

put on a terror blacklist.

Yes, China has blocked the leader

of a terrorist organization

from being labeled a terrorist.

But India won a round on that front

at this BRICS Summit.

In the 43-page joint statement

put out during the summit,

tackling terrorism was a key point.

And it specifically called out

Pakistan based groups

like Lashkar-e-Taiba

and Jaish-e-Mohammad,

alongside ISIS and al-Qaida.

That may put a strain on China-Pakistan ties.

Another reason the Chinese regime

is concerned about India

is its ties to the United States.

Beijing is leery of being surrounded by US allies,

like South Korea, Japan, Australia, and India.

So smoothing over recent tensions

to ensure India came to BRICS

is part of a long term plan

to make India,

and all the other countries,

more reliant on China instead of the West.

A big part of that is the New Development Bank.

It was started two years ago by the BRICS countries.

The idea is to rival the World Bank and the IMF.

The New Development Bank is equally funded

by all five BRICS countries:

Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

And it will offer loans for projects in those countries—

without all the strings attached

that Western countries tend to add.

Worthless strings,

like government transparency

and human rights.

The New Development Bank is probably

the most concrete thing to come out of

the BRICS Summits in recent years.

Each country has pledged

$10 billion dollars to it so far.

The first project it funded

is a solar energy plant in China.

And one of the next projects it will fund

is a drinking water system in rural India.

Of course China's $10 billion investment

in the New Development Bank is small

compared to the $120 billion

Xi Jinping pledged to his One Belt,

One Road initiative back in May.

So he's still giving priority to that.

But as much as the Chinese regime

would like India to become economically dependent on China,

the plan may have backfired a bit.

Because while Xi's back was turned,

these two got to talking on the sidelines.

Modi and Putin got to talking about

their own trade and investment deals.

And that was after the two signed defense and energy deals

worth billions last October.

I mean Putin, whose side are you on?

Look, Xi Jinping just wanted to put on a good party.

And of course the US wasn't invited.

There a Chinese Opera,

set in what looks suspiciously like China's

sacred territory in the South China Sea.

Putin seems uncomfortable.

There was even pie...or least metaphors about pie.

"The development of emerging markets

and developing countries

won't touch anyone's cheese,

but instead will diligently grow

the world economic pie.”

What's with the cheese thing?

Has Xi Jinping been reading self help books again?

"We will grow the world economic pie

by manifesting it through the law of attraction

of the universe.

Visualize the pie.

The big cheese pie.”

Oh no, he's moved on to The Secret.

No one show him The Power of Now.

But overall,

relations between India and China are better

than they were during the recent military standoff.

At the same time,

India is still suspicious of what China has to offer.

And that might mean team BRICS

will never make it to the top of volcano mountain.

But at least they'll always have a big cheese pie?

And coming up after the break,

the Chinese Communist Party is being threatened by ISIS.

Which makes this whole India rivalry

look like a playground scuffle.

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