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BRICS is bigger and more powerful. But what does the grouping actually want?

The BRICS summit offers India a moment in the geopolitical limelight. For New Delhi, the main challenge will be to bring its two bilateral partners — Iran and the UAE — together.

New Delhi: New Delhi’s BRICS moment arrives at a critical moment in geopolitics, even as the expanded grouping grapples for consensus over a range of issues — from conflicts in West Asia to reform of the United Nations Security Council. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian are among the leaders attending the BRICS 2026 summit, in a show of diplomatic force among non-Western economies. The scale and scope of the diplomacy in the offing make BRICS ThePrint’s Newsmaker of the Week.

India’s fourth chairship of the grouping has been a rather low-key affair. The pomp and show seen during the last major geopolitical summit hosted by New Delhi – the G20 Leaders’ Summit in September 2023 – has been largely missing.

The G20 summit witnessed months-long city beautification drives, colourful murals around the national capital and huge billboards of Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcoming the delegates. In contrast, the preparations have been far more subdued this time around, as Bloomberg noted in a report.

BRICS has also come under the scanner of the US, with President Donald Trump promising steep tariffs if the grouping’s 11 member states – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia — move towards “de-dollarisation.”

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