Leaders from the bloc of developing economies will gather this week to debate expansion.
| China will push the BRICS bloc of emerging markets to become a full-scale rival to the G7 this week, as leaders from across the developing world gather to debate the forum’s biggest expansion in more than a decade.
Naledi Pandor, South Africa’s foreign minister, said this month it was “extremely wrong” to see a potential BRICS expansion as an anti-Western move. But Mr Ramaphosa has expressed support for an expansion, saying more than 20 nations have formally applied to join.“An expanded BRICS will represent a diverse group of nations which share a common desire to have a more balanced world order,” Mr Ramaphosa said in a televised address to the nation on Sunday.
Mr Putin is likely to attend by video link, and he spoke to Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi on August 17 about Tehran’s application to join the BRICS, according to the Kremlin.
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