And while the wider membership certainly shows ambition, the expansion is not without its challenges. Already regarded as a somewhat disparate and divided group, the BRICS bloc is unlikely to become ...

South Africa and Russia have backed the expansion. India was initially hesitant because it was concerned that a bigger BRICS would transform the group into a mouthpiece for China, while Brazil was ...

The inclusion of the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Ethiopia and Iran in the 16th BRICS Summit in Russia last week formally marked the group’s expansion. BRICS started in 2009 as a forum for ...

Thailand sees BRICS as an important interstate association, the expansion of which will lead to changes to the world geopolitics and economy, Thai political scientist Jiraporn Ruampongpattana has ...

Will the Modi-Xi meeting make peace at the Line of Actual Control, and what are the big messages that the BRICS expansion, taking in 6 more members going out to the world? Ramaphosa “ We have ...