WASHINGTON: The United States is racing to improve its messaging to the developing world as the BRICS group grows, although few in Washington view an immediate threat from the Chinese-backed club. The BRICS - Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa - agreed at a summit last week
WASHINGTON: The United States is racing to improve its messaging to the developing world as the BRICS group grows, although few in Washington view an immediate threat from the Chinese-backed club.to add six more members
Biden's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, vowed to fight to reform the Washington-based lenders at an upcoming summit in New Delhi of the Group of 20 - boosting the roles both of the US-backed organisation, which brings together both rich and poor nations, and of India, a key member of both clubs.
Sullivan, noting the wide policy differences among the countries, earlier told reporters,"We are not looking at the BRICS as evolving into some kind of geopolitical rival to the United States or anyone else.""ALTERNATIVES, NOT REPLACEMENTS" "It's a message to the United States that these gaps are hurting and our countries are not just complaining about them or carping from the sidelines, but actually taking action to try and fill these gaps," he said.
"I think the US is starting to take it seriously," Shidore said of developing countries' concern."But those are statements - is there money attached to it?"For Washington, the most concerning addition to the BRICS is Iran, which has hailed membership as a way to break out of US-driven isolation over the clerical state's contested nuclear work and clampdown on protesters.
Tensions also divided the original BRICS. China has a difficult relationship with India, which has been warming to the United States while insisting on"strategic autonomy".
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