Starting off the new year, the Brics group has welcomed nine new countries as partner states on 1 January 2025.

The group’s 2024 expansion comes with a range of geopolitical implications. It represents growing economic and demographic heft: the ten BRICS countries now comprise more than a quarter of the ...

The expansion of BRICS, a coalition of emerging national economies, is stirring up a financial storm, particularly for the ...

The Brics–Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa–invited six nations to become new members of the economic group from 2024. The WSJ analyzes the significance of the expansion ...

Astana has emphasized its commitment to strengthening its role as a close partner of BRICS while also stating that it will not seek membership. While it may not yet be a powerful alliance ...

Thailand sees BRICS as an important interstate association, the expansion of which will lead to changes to the world geopolitics and economy, Thai political scientist Jiraporn Ruampongpattana has ...

While the expansion of BRICS could benefit Africa and the Middle East in terms of enhanced trade, investment, and geopolitical influence, it also presents several challenges that could reshape ...

Will the Modi-Xi meeting make peace at the Line of Actual Control, and what are the big messages that the BRICS expansion, taking in 6 more members going out to the world? Ramaphosa “ We have ...

The main summit of BRICS leaders, set for August, could be one of the most important in the bloc's short history as it contemplates expansion. Amid China-U.S. tensions, the impetus to build a ...