BRICS, Trump and tariff
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday that BRICS was not an anti-American group and that it will not listen to "language of threats and manipulation".
It has condemned tariffs and military strikes on Iran, but analysts say Brics’ true test is in moving beyond rhetoric to deliver results.
Founding members Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping were conspicuously absent while the US warned member countries of additional tariffs.
The Trump administration will not immediately impose a new 10% tariff against members of the developing nation BRICS bloc, but will proceed if countries take so-called "anti-American" policy actions,
At their latest summit in Brazil, the BRICS nations once again portrayed themselves as an emerging geopolitical heavyweight. Yet the internal contradictions within this expanding group remain plain to see.
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The world has changed and the western-led postwar order is over, or so the Brics bloc of developing nations insists. Equally clear at the group’s annual summit in Rio de Janeiro this week was that the Brics have changed too — and not for the better. The new model is bigger, less coherent and far less likely to achieve any of its putative goals.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday that the BRICS group is not an anti-American group and that it will not listen to "language of threats and manipulation".
BRICS is not an anti-American alliance, and its agenda does not contain anti-American components, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Thursday. Ryabkov told Anadolu at a news conference in Moscow that when Washington violates “important elements of international law,” BRICS refers to those happenings by using accurate terminology.