The next summit of the BRICS countries was under the sign of conventional muscle tension, but besides the absence of the most powerful policy.
Jakub Wozinski
W Rio de Janeiro has just finished the 17th summit of countries that openly question the dominance of the Western world.
Dismissal
The most attention was drawn to the absent this time. Traditionally, Vladimir Putin took part in the summit in a distant manner, on which the global Court of the Hague issued an arrest warrant. In his speech, the president of the Russian Federation argued that the current globalisation model must change and that the future belongs to emerging markets. There were besides conventional communes, specified as calls for a fresh political order based on common respect.
To pain, however, the predictable speech of the Russian leader made a much little awesome impression than Xi JinPing's eloquent silence, which did not first fall for the BRICS summit. Although there was no authoritative communication on the matter, the apparent reason for this absence was that Brazilian president Lula da Silva accepted with peculiar honors the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. China and India have had sparks for a long time, mostly due to the expanding aspirations of both countries.
W Brazil's Chinese side was represented by Prime Minister Li Qiang, who courtesyly thanked the hosts for organising the summit and offered to support many projects. In fact, China is very dissatisfied with the fact that both Lula da Silva and Narendra Modi are so actively cooperating with Western leaders, giving expanding uncertainty to the cooperation within BRICS.
Trustlessness
The already mentioned "flexion of muscles" at the summit was manifested, among others, in the constant reminder that the BRICS group represents as much as 37% of global GDP and 45% of the world's population. This data makes a powerful impression, but with each next summit, it can be felt that it is increasingly hard for all members to break common distrust and strengthen cooperation.
The best evidence of this is the fact that the Brazilian summit ended with a declaration that no further enlargement of the community would happen soon. The gathering was attended by delegations of 11 countries, including the recently adopted Saudi Arabia, which late concluded a historical agreement with the United States to acquisition arms worth $122 billion.
The Saudis will surely bring crucial GDP to BRICS, but there is very small chance that they will bring a clear confrontational attitude towards the West. BRICS leaders increasingly realize how hard it is for them to share their position on even the most basic issues, and have so decided that the next fewer days will be subject to an effort to strengthen their cooperation with the existing group. This approach contrasts powerfully with the late promoted fast expansion of the group with fresh members.
The BRICS Group, which, of course, cannot be underestimated, has already scored at least a fewer spectacular false starts. 1 of them was the announcement in 2022 by Vladimir Putin of the imminent creation of a fresh global alternate reserve currency against the dollar. So far, BRICS has only managed to continuously increase its gold reserves. Another of the flagship projects was to be the NDB improvement bank to supply an alternate to the planet Bank and the global Monetary Fund. The bank was formed, but far from gathering expectations that accompanied its establishment.
BRICS leaders do not simply consider failed projects and like to focus on fresh initiatives. In Brazil, the issue of trade between associate States was first raised. Much attention was besides paid to work on creating an alternate financial settlement strategy for SWIFT.
Sustainable improvement Kaganek
However, the most crucial is the fact that so much attention has been paid to climate policy, sustainable improvement or global governance at the Brazilian summit. It is common to believe that the Western countries are peculiarly curious in these issues, and that the global East is seriously ignoring all the objectives of green policy, thus gaining a crucial advantage. The gathering of the BRICS leaders showed that the situation is much more complicated than it might seem.
As is well known, the politician who has done most late to argue climate restrictions is Donald Trump. He began his second word with a dynamic effort to abolish all kinds of subsidies under the alleged One, large Beautiful Act, which exposed himself to the violent opposition of the climate-based international.
However, it turns out that Trump might as well be thoroughly criticized by the BRICS Group leaders, who in this situation seem to communicate to the full planet that they are ready to hold the advanced standard of sustainable development, thereby supporting the full western left at a crisis moment. specified a turn of events can be at least consternation, as it turns out that even Iran, Ethiopia, or Indonesia, which are hard to admit as green primates, are on the green side.
Taking care of green politics from China or India seems to be a beautiful understandable strategy. Both countries have formally committed themselves to the same zero-emission objectives, but they treat their own declarations with a advanced glare and have explicitly stated that they will evidence at least a ten-year hold towards the West. In practice, this means that while Europe is deindustrialising increasingly, Asian countries are on the way of dynamic economical growth.
The Chinese-Indian scission, which occurred at the BRICS summit in Brazil, is surely not promising for the future for the full block. If there are specified large discrepancies already at this phase of building an alternate for the West, it may be even more hard to continue. Even more so, China and India are doomed to a major conflict for dominance in the region.
Jakub Wozinski
