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Bric by Bric, the building of a new ‘home’ for the Global South
Brics has opened up another avenue to address global challenges, but it is taking care not to expand too quickly.
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(From left) Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s President Xi Jinping, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, India’s PM Narendra Modi and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the 2023 Brics Summit in Johannesburg on Aug 24.
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Zhou Bo
The best example of a shift in the international order is not the outbreak of an improbable war in the heartland of Europe, but the rapid expansion of Brics from a clutch of five nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in 2010 to a grouping of 11 in August 2023. This is despite the fact that one of its members, Russia, is involved in that war.
The inclusion of six more countries
