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BRICS Summit 2025: will slow and steady actually win the race?
The recently concluded BRICS Leaders’ Summit in Rio took place against the backdrop of great geopolitical flux. After years ...
For the first time, Xi is missing a China-backed BRICS summit. Why?
A summit of leaders from the BRICS group of major emerging economies kicks off in Brazil Sunday – but without the top leader ...
BRICS tariff to be applied only if they adopt policies deemed 'anti-American', source says
The Trump administration will not immediately impose a new 10% tariff against members of the developing nation BRICS bloc, ...
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BRICS Summit: Underwhelming and Cautious
At their latest summit in Brazil, the BRICS nations once again portrayed themselves as an emerging geopolitical heavyweight. Yet the internal contradictions within this expanding group remain plain to ...
Xi Jinping’s surprise no-show at BRICS Summit fuels speculation about China's global standing
Xi Jinping skips BRICS Summit for the first time amid speculation of political turbulence in China and divisions between ...
Brics is sliding towards irrelevance – the Rio summit made that clear
Brics can only provide credible leadership in a changing global order when it addresses its many inner contradictions.
China in sight, PM Modi urges BRICS to thwart 'weaponisation' of critical minerals
With China’s dominance over global rare earth supplies looming large, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday issued a pointed ...
China Leads a BRICS Nations Shift Into Solar Power, Report Shows
China’s vast clean-energy industry has spearheaded a BRICS solar-power boom, with the bloc accounting for more than half of ...
Modi-Lula's dinner, retirement buzz or something else? Why Xi Jinping's no-show at Brics is raising eyebrows
In over a decade in office, Xi never once missed a BRICS summit. Officially, Chinese officials informed Brazil that Xi had a ...