This weekend, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are among the heads of state gathering in New Delhi for the 18th iteration of the BRICS summit.
The forum, which began as a project between Russia, China, India and Brazil, has since expanded to include 10 full members as well as 10 partner nations.
Long dismissed in the West as little more than an irritant, the BRICS has become the highest-profile gathering of non-Western leaders.
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At a time when the so-called “rules-based international order’ is unravelling, the BRICS is emblematic of today’s shifting global dynamics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the leaching of power away from a once-dominant America to an increasingly confident China.
