Category: BRICS

By Lucia LACURCIA The foreign ministers of Brazil, China, Russia and other BRICS members began two days of talks in Rio de Janeiro Monday aimed at forging a united front to U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive trade policies. ...

By Lucia Lacurcia Senior diplomats from BRICS countries will meet on Monday in Brazil to present a united front in the face of threats emerging from U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive trade policies. The meeting ...

Brazil's already strained ties with the United States are likely to fray even more when President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva travels in a few weeks to Moscow and Beijing for separate talks with his Russian and Chinese counterparts. The primary focus ...

One of the interesting little nuggets buried deep in the 6,000+ word joint statement issued by China and Vietnam at the end of President Xi Jinping's visit to Hanoi on Tuesday was a passing reference to Hanoi's willingness to begin talks to join the BRICS group.

Indonesia on Tuesday announced that it will join the BRICS-backed New Development Bank NDB, headquartered in Shanghai, and has proposed 77 projects for funding. The move strengthens Jakarta’s financial ties with BRICS economies as the bloc expands ...

Thailand’s Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa defended the country’s decision to join BRICS on Monday, stating that membership is in the national interest and will enhance economic growth, technological cooperation, and Thailand’s role in global governance. Addressing Senate questions on ...

Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has been hospitalized in Shanghai for ear inflammation, her team said Tuesday. The 77-year-old economist, who now heads a bank established by the BRICS bloc of developing economies, "is responding well to treatment" and should be ...

At last week's Munich Security Conference, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi touted his country's 5% economic growth last year as a "benefit to the world" thanks to all of the trade it does with countries around the world. ...

Leaders of the countries known as BRICS will hold a summit in Rio de Janeiro in July, the current chair Brazil announced Saturday. Other members of the trading bloc include Russia, India, China, South Africa, and others.

As Malaysia strengthens its economic engagement with China, it faces increasing pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed tariff threats. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim signaled on Tuesday that Malaysia will not be caught in a binary trade war but ...

As Donald Trump prepared to launch a trade war against his North American neighbors on Friday, the U.S. president focused renewed attention on what could be his next target: the ten member states of the BRICS group. The president is seemingly ...

U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated Thursday his threat to place 100 percent tariffs on BRICS nations, as the deadline loomed for him to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Trump had previously threatened 100% tariffs on BRICS nations—a bloc including Brazil, ...