New Delhi, Sep 29, 2025

US President Donald Trump’s repeated attempts at dismantling a Global South initiative, targeting its constituents ‘brick-by-brick’ with punitive tariffs and name-calling, may have rather helped the nations come closer.

Foreign Ministers of BRICS nations, on September 27, made clear their intention of standing united against “coercion that threatens to further reduce global trade, disrupt global supply chains, or introduce uncertainty into international economic and trade activities…”

White House eyes BRICS nations as a challenge to US hegemony. The group today represents close to half the global population and around 40 per cent of the global GDP, with about 26 per cent of global trade.

Its first meeting took place at the Foreign Ministers’ level in 2006, much

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