Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will travel to Kazakhstan on Friday for the Sixth China-Central Asia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. The visit will also include a strategic dialogue with his Kazakh counterpart. From there, he will move on to the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Brazil on Monday. (CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY)

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s top foreign policy adviser, Celso Amorim, said China and the emerging powers making up the BRICS bloc will increasingly guard global cooperation in the face of disruptive measures from the Trump administration. In an interview with the Financial Times, he said, “As the United States steps back from multilateralism, from the economic and social order which they themselves created after the Second World War, the space for the BRICS increases.” (FT)