According to Celso Amorim, BRICS nations continue discussions of potential payment mechanisms that the group’s members could adopt ...

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This year, the BRICS—a ten-country group whose first five members were Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—has gained a renewed sense of purpose thanks to one catalyst: the United States.

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On 8 September 2025, Brazil, holding the rotating BRICS presidency, convened an extraordinary virtual BRICS summit from Rio de Janeiro. While BRICS champions multipolarity, its ambitions are ...

Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is convening a virtual meeting of BRICS leaders next Monday to discuss Donald Trump’s trade policy, according to four people familiar with the plan. The Brazilian ...

Lula and Xi reaffirmed BRICS and G20 as key platforms to defend multilateralism and resist trade measures. Both leaders agreed to expand bilateral ties, with agriculture central to China–Brazil trade.

BRICS is a term that first started being used about 25 years ago to refer to the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. In 2009, on Russia’s invitation, the four BRIC nations held ...

The recent BRICS summit in Brazil revealed a loose alliance of emerging powers becoming more complex — and perhaps more consequential. For BRICS, heft matters. It now counts 11 member states — ...

President Trump’s attacks on the group of emerging economies, which includes Brazil, Russia and China, have put one member — India — in an uncomfortable spot. By Alex Travelli Reporting from New Delhi ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese Premier Li Qiang attend a meeting at BRICS Summit in Rio de ...

As US President Donald Trump wages a trade war across the globe, a new target has come into his line of fire: the BRICS group of emerging major economies. Trump in recent days has threatened members ...