At The Rio Summit, Signs Of BRICS In Retreat

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Rio de Janeiro welcomes this Sunday and Monday the BRICS summit, which was born in 2009 as a club of emerging economies and, after a recent enlargement, has become the main instrument with which the great countries of the Global South count to exercise a counterweight to the West, express their demands in forums and international institutions and collaborate with each other. Its name, coined by an economist of Goldman Sachs who grouped them as a…

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In Rio de Janeiro, Iran took part in the BRICS summit for the first time – and promptly danced out of line. As if that were not enough, Donald Trump made a harsh threat after the meeting. Is the anti-Western alliance about to break up? In Rio de Janeiro, the BRICS states met this weekend – but neither Russian President Vladimir Putin nor China's head of state Xi Jinping could be seen at the Copacabana. The alliance weakens. And then US President…