The 18th BRICS Summit, held in New Delhi on September 12–13, occurred amid an exceptional intensification of international contradictions. Wars in West Asia, unilateral sanctions, tariff barriers, and the weaponisation of finance and
Artificial intelligence is advancing at a breathtaking pace. Countries and companies are racing to build more powerful models and push the boundaries of what machines can do. But for much of the
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As BRICS prepares to meet in New Delhi, it would do well to understand not only what the United States is doing, but why. The reported American move to gain majority control
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Editorial What exactly did India leave out of the statement issued after Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s visit to Colombo? More importantly, why are the questions that matter most to Sri Lanka missing
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At the BRICS summit in South Africa in the summer of 2023, the group’s five member states made a bold decision: they invited five new countries to join. The move was greeted
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi Five days after the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in what is widely reported as a US-Israel strike, India formally expressed its condemnation and
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Editorial Where were the BRICS countries when one of their permanent members was struck and its head of state was decapitated? Not issuing warnings. Not convening emergency sessions. Not even speaking in
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This column was originally published in Sunday Morning, a Colombo-based weekly newspaper. India was not in the West’s favour until the early 1990s, maintaining a close and unapologetic alignment with the Soviet
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China, Russia and Iran on Saturday began a week of joint naval exercises in South Africa’s territorial waters, an operation the host nation described as a BRICS Plus initiative aimed at safeguarding
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The U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a stern warning to BRICS nations, threatening a 10% tariff on all imports from member states if they continue efforts to challenge the dominance of
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The 17th BRICS Summit, to be held in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on Sunday and Monday, comes at a time of growing global volatility. Amid mounting geopolitical tensions and
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The post-Cold War order is unravelling. The global trading system and the multilateral order, painstakingly built after the Second World War, have been torn apart. What once stood as a framework for
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor We must, without doubt, congratulate another gathering of BRICS 2025, but this polished ceremony of rhetorical commitment masks a disquieting duplicity—a theatre of solidarity that often performs
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Editor’s note: This essay is based on excerpts from the full academic paper “The Latent Maritime Potential of BRICS+: A Time for Realignment” by the suthor, published in the Strategic Review for
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The ongoing BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, held from July 6 to 7, 2025, marks a historic turning point as the group meets for the first time under an expanded format
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On July 5, 2025, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva addressed the opening of the BRICS Business Forum in Rio de Janeiro, setting a confident and ambitious tone ahead of the ongoing
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