By Nik Martin\DW
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BRICS leaders meet in Brazil this weekend to advance plans to challenge Western dominance. As more nations join the economic bloc, how will BRICS reshape power, trade and influence in a rapidly shifting world?
Leaders of the world’s fast-growing BRICS economies gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this weekend, promising to strengthen trade and technology exchange within the bloc in the shadow of US President Donald Trump’s tariff threat.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will host the three-day talks, attended by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese Premier Li Qiang among others.
The Kremlin has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has an outstanding arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes over the war in Ukraine, will not be appearing.
DW recaps the history of BRICS and the nascent bloc’s plans to take on the West. READ MORE…
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