South Africa – BRICS leaders meet in South Africa as bloc weighs expansion

By Bhargav Acharya

 

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Leaders of the BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – are due to open a summit in Johannesburg on Tuesday where they will weigh expanding membership as some members push to forge the bloc into a counterweight to the West.

Heightened global tensions provoked by the Ukraine war and a growing rivalry between China and the United States have added urgency to a drive to strengthen the bloc, which has at times suffered from internal divisions and a lack of coherent vision.

“An expanded BRICS will represent a diverse group of nations with different political systems that share a common desire to have a more balanced global order,” South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, said in an address ahead of the meetings…

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