What happened to BRICS nations?
Since Trump came in I am yet to hear them convening for any meeting. Since Trump slammed Tariffs on most of them I don't see them having any meetings or talking about BRICs anymore.
It makes me to think that were they for real or they wanted to just cause some disruptions in the world market at the time they were talking about whatever they were going to do.
India is a BRICS member but I don't see them having any friendly chat with China with the reality of things.
To each one their own.
The so-called BRICS were just a trading bloc imagined up by journalists and eager politicians after the soviet union counter weight evaporated. If you break it down, there is Brazil - who is just as much a trading partner with "the West" as much as it in with these other nations. Then you have Russia, which has self imploded back to a basic oil export nation living on a war economy but producing very little else of value. Then there is India, which again trades with many nations but is a rival to the next country: China. These two countries work together begrudgingly in some cases, but are actually major economic rivals vying for power in the Asian region. South Africa has also shrunk in significance compared to the time this phrase was coined.