The bloc of countries has expanded and goals to reform what it calls a Western-led international order.
The seventeenth BRICS summit is being held in Brazil, once more aiming to stability Western financial energy and political dominance.
However because the conferences happen, eyes are on the US and President Donald Trump’s commerce tariffs, maybe displaying America nonetheless holds the playing cards.
Whereas the host nation Brazil condemns Israel’s aggression and NATO’s elevated defence spending, different international locations should not so outspoken.
And two necessary faces should not attending – Chinese language President Xi Jinping and Russian chief Vladimir Putin.
So does BRICS nonetheless have a cohesive function?
Has the grouping made tangible achievements over time because it launched in 2009?
And what can it realistically hope to do, in immediately’s world?
Presenter:
James Bays
Friends:
Gustavo Ribeiro – Founder and editor-in-chief of The Brazilian Report
Sergey Markov – Director on the Institute of Political Research in Moscow and former public spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin
Jayant Menon – Former lead economist at Asian Growth Financial institution and visiting senior fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore