By HNewswire
HNewsWire: The BRICS coalition, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, focuses mostly on trade discussions, while it has also reached agreements on security issues such as counterterrorism. Despite increased tensions between members over the last decade, particularly between India and China, whose military fought in conflict over their shared border in 2020, the coalition has held.
The BRICS alliance also held despite the election of a self-proclaimed conservative president, Jair Bolsonaro, who radically shifted the focus of domestic politics from what it was when far-left socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva helped create the coalition in 2009. Despite campaigning on anti-communism in 2018, Bolsonaro has generally maintained close connections with China and has remained neutral in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, strongly opposing sanctions against Moscow.
On November 13, 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro shake hands during a press conference following their bilateral meeting at Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil. – On the eve of a summit with their BRICS counterparts from Russia, India, and South Africa, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro walked a diplomatic tightrope, seeking to strengthen ties with Beijing while not upsetting major friend Donald Trump.
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