The BRICS summit at Delhi offers India a chance to project itself as the Global South’s convenor without becoming an anti-Western camp

When Narendra Modi welcomes Vladimir Putin, Cyril Ramaphosa, and counterparts from an eleven-nation bloc to New Delhi on September 12-13, it will mark India’s first BRICS chairmanship — its most consequential hosting since the 2023 G20 presidency. The theme — “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability” — is compelling; the agenda is not: reformed multilateralism at the UN and IMF, balanced trade and smooth services flows within the bloc, supply chains for semiconductors and critical minerals, a Startup Innovation Fund, an AI governance framework, and an Agricultural Trade Conduct........

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