India builds Brics without breaking up with US
India is balancing its leadership role within the BRICS bloc while maintaining strong diplomatic and strategic ties with the United States. Analysts suggest that despite BRICS' growing political influence, internal divisions prevent it from becoming a unified anti-American alliance.
Why it matters
India's 'multi-alignment' strategy is a critical factor in the shifting geopolitical landscape between Western powers and the Global South.
TOI correspondent from Washington: It’s a club MAGA boss Donald Trump loves to hate -- one that New Delhi not only refuses to leave but wants to lead. As India hugged Brics without breaking up with America, presiding over a geopolitical game of musical chairs where nobody gets eliminated, reviews in Washington of the just-concluded summit sounded more wary than alarmed despite the group's growing strength and a reprimand of Uncle Sam without calling him by name.While the New Delhi Declaration took aim at unilateral tariffs, trade barriers, and sanctions, warning that such measures distort global commerce and violate the spirit of the WTO -- while dancing around the issue of wars involving the US, Russia, and several members -- the reaction in Washington to the summit has been more hmmm than horror.
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