# The BRIC architect's warning for the West Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-daily-480879/the-bric-architect-s-warning-for-the-west Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-daily-480879/the-bric-architect-s-warning-for-the-west.md Podcast: [Business Daily](https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-daily-480879) Published: 2026-07-12T20:30:00+00:00 Episode link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8gg1 Audio file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss-low/proto/http/vpid/p0nycfpq.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/business-daily-480879/episodes/the-bric-architect-s-warning-for-the-west Duration seconds: 1200 ## Resource Ed Butler speaks to the man who coined the term BRIC for the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Now back in the headlines as an adviser to Britain’s likely next Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, Jim O'Neill argues that Western nations must abandon what he calls their neo-colonial attitudes towards the world's new industrial powerhouses. (Photo: Chinese President Xi Jinping and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, 23 October, 2024. Credit: China Daily/Reuters) You can email the team: businessdaily@bbc.co.uk Producer/presenter: Ed Butler ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/business-daily-480879/episodes/the-bric-architect-s-warning-for-the-west/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-daily-480879/the-bric-architect-s-warning-for-the-west.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.