It’s condemned tariffs and military strikes on Iran, but analysts say Brics faces its true test in moving beyond rhetoric to deliver results.

President Trump is amping up trade threats, again unveiling a new batch of letters to country leaders outlining tariffs on goods imported from their countries beginning in August and a warning to BRICS nations.

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.

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.

Brics, a grouping of 11 very diverse nations, has repeatedly got in US President Donald Trump’s crosshairs. He’s called it ‘anti-American’ and threatened punitive tariffs. Mint looks at Brics closely—its members, objectives, clout, recent actions and why it unsettles Trump.

Trumps new tariff letters have sent shockwaves across global markets as he targets 22 countries with tough new trade threats just weeks before the August 1 deadline. From close allies like Japan and South Korea to BRICS nations like Brazil and South Africa,

Leaders of the BRICS group of developing nations addressed the shared challenges of global warming on Monday, the final day of their summit in Rio de Janeiro, demanding that wealthy nations fund mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in poorer nations.

New Delhi’s core demand: build alternatives that are interoperable and don’t just replace the US dollar with another hegemon