Opinion | BRICS Gist: Alliances Weaken, Frenemies Bond As ‘Disloyal Diplomacy’ Goes Legit

Imagine a world in which a good marriage is judged by the number of public extramarital dalliances it withstands. That is exactly what geopolitics looks like today.

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Once upon a time, friends used to be friends, enemies were enemies, the powerful picked allies, and the weak picked a side.

That world does not exist anymore.

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Diplomacy has entered completely chaotic and unfamiliar terrain. Suddenly, rules that held good till just a couple of years ago no longer apply. The very definition of trust between nations has changed. There is no leader whom even a handful of nations listen to or look up to.

Imagine a world in which a good marriage is judged by the number of public extramarital dalliances it withstands. That is exactly what geopolitics looks like today.

It is more democratic yet deeply disruptive. It is coldly pragmatic yet unpredictable.

It is not a simple US-China bipolar world. What geopolitics now resembles is a gaggle of mid-sized and large powers that trade with rivals, share intelligence with enemies of their allies, and sit in the same photograph while arming opposite sides of the same war.

The BRICS summit in New Delhi was an exhibition of that chaos. Xi Jinping was on his first Delhi trip........

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