IN 2009, BRICS began as a forum for Brazil, Russia, India, and China. After South Africa joined in 2011, BRICS expanded further in 2024 with Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab ...

Sept. 20, 2026Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's participation in the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi was more than a routine diplomatic engagement. It was a clear moment of strategic significance for ...

Each of these summits offers a different vision of the international order. The SCO and BRICS both represent the Global South ...

BRICS’ New Delhi Summit expanded the grouping’s ambitions, but geopolitical divisions and weak institutional clarity continue ...

Beijing has three increasingly strong reasons to push now for a US-Iran settlement. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Indonesia joined BRICS without publishing a roadmap. Without benchmarks, summit visibility risks substituting for the strategy that makes it pay.

Dmitry Trenin When the BRIC group, as it was known then, first emerged, it was greeted with amusement as another exotic variety of alphabet soup in the age of globalization. As it became a more ...

The 18th BRICS Summit, held in New Delhi on 12–13 September, closed India’s fourth chairship of the grouping, following those ...

As fires rage and geopolitical tests loom, Indonesians are waiting for the President to make good on his word: that real ...

Xi Jinping’s appearance at the BRICS summit quickly became the subject of intense online speculation, with viewers scrutinizing his behavior and trying to determine what they were seeing. This episode ...

Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Asad Alam Siam has been approved as the next High Commissioner to India, as New Delhi and Dhaka seek to reset strained ties. His appointment comes amid tensions over ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Sept. 12 on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in New Delhi, in the latest effort by the rival neighbors to repair ties strained ...