BRICS

President Donald Trump on Thursday cautioned BRICS member countries against replacing the US dollar as the global reserve currency, reiterating a threat of 100% tariffs that he had issued after winning the US elections in November. In a…
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The recently-concluded BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, along with its symbolism and the 143-paragraph declaration reflects the sharpening geopolitical faultlines across the world, and the group’s diminishing utility for India’s interests.…
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The 6th International Conference on Development and Governance in the BRICS was organised by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur on Friday. During the session on “Governance in the Times of Global Turmoil,” moderated by…
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“China and India’s disagreement,” noted Hung Tran, non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center in an essay, "regarding membership expansion will shape the prospects of aspiring BRICS countries and the…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday spoke to Chinese president Xi Jinping and highlighted India's concerns on the unresolved issues along the LAC, foreign secretary Vinay Kwatra said at a briefing. “The prime minister underlined that…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday reviewed bilateral relations and discussed coordination between the two sides at multilateral bodies as they met on the sidelines of the Brics…
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China's President Xi Jinping has asserted that the 'Cold War Style' is still affecting the world and the geo-political situation is getting tense. In his address to the open plenary session of the 15th BRICS Summit in the South African…
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Russian president Vladimir Putin is notably absent from the BRICS meeting while other world leaders reached Johannesburg in South Africa to attend the three-day summit. The bloc consists of India, Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa.…
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The expansion of Brics will be in focus when leaders of the 17-year-old grouping assemble for a summit in South Africa next week though the five member states are yet to reach common ground on the issue, people familiar with the matter…
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India and Brazil are pushing back against a Chinese bid to rapidly expand the BRICS group of emerging markets to grow its political clout and counter the US, officials with knowledge of the matter said. The countries have raised objections…
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