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BRICS Summit Minus China’s Xi. A Symbolic Snub Or A Strategic Shuffle? Can The Global South Still Speak With One Voice?

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BRICS summit, for the first time in more than a decade, Chinese President Xi Jinping (the undisputed architect of China’s bid to reshape global power structures) is absent. And not just any summit, but the first gathering of the newly expanded BRICS+, which now includes geopolitical wildcards like Iran, Egypt, and the UAE. Xi’s decision …

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The absence of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin marks the BRICS summit in Brazil, where conflicting interests and current crises highlight the internal tensions of cooperation.

·Copenhagen, Denmark
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The meeting served as an opportunity for Brazil to resize the role of the group in its external policy In view of the energy invested in the preparations and negotiations of the Brics Cup in Rio, it is understandable that the government's impulse to reject the idea that the meeting was empty. The absence of the Chinese president Xi Jinping, leader of the group's 60% PIB, certainly contributed to a sense of anticlimax. But the meeting served as a…

·Brazil
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DECRYPTAGE. This is the first time that the Chinese leader will not be present in person at the 17th summit of the Brics. Beyond the fact, this absence tells the state in which this group of countries, alternative to the Western G7 is located.

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VIDEO - On Monday, July 7, David Baverez, an investor in Hong Kong, a specialist in China, was the guest of Caroline Rent in Le monde qui mouvement - L'Interview, of the show Good Morning Business, presented by Laure Closier. They discussed the challenges of the 17th BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro...

·France
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BFM TV broke the news in France on Monday, July 7, 2025.
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