Next week, BRICS nations’ news leaders will meet in South Africa to debate how to transform a loose group of countries that together make up a quarter of the world’s economy into a geopolitical force that may challenge the dominance of the West in international affairs.
BRICS nations’ news leaders will meet in South Africa to debate how to transform a loose group of countries (Photo: Tehran Times)
BRICS Nations News on Western Domination
Despite disagreements about whether to broaden the bloc to include the dozens of “Global South” countries lining up to join, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is wanted by international authorities for suspected war crimes in Ukraine, will not join leaders from Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.
The BRICS nations news, summit will take place in South Africa from August 22 to 24 and will be attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The fundamental factor that unites the BRICS nations’ news, which is widely dispersed and has extremely diverse economies, is skepticism toward a global order that they perceive as serving the interests of the United States and its rich-country friends who support international standards they enforce but occasionally disregard.
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BRICS Nations News: Expansion of Membership
There isn’t much information about what they’ll be talking about, but according to BRICS Nations’ news that to South Africa, over 40 countries have expressed interest in attending, either formally or informally. Saudi Arabia, Argentina, and Egypt are among them.
Brazil is opposing the BRICS Nations’ news of enlargement out of concern that it will weaken the already cumbersome club’s prestige. China wants to fast broaden BRICS in an effort to increase its geopolitical power as it struggles with the US.
In a BRICS Nations’ news by Reuters, China’s foreign ministry stated that it “supports progress in expanding membership, and welcomes more like-minded partners to join the ‘BRICS family’ at an early date” South Africa’s foreign minister Naledi Pandor stated last week that BRICS nations wanted to demonstrate “global leadership in addressing the needs… of the majority of the world, namely… development and inclusion of the Global South in multilateral systems.”
