How the BRICS alliance could challenge the Western-led world order | DW News Desk

The BRICS group - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - are holding a high-profile summit in Russia this week. Vladimir Putin has made his aims as host clear. He wants to show he's not alone and Western attempts to isolate Moscow have failed. But what's in it for everyone else? Is BRICS just a club for anti-Western grievances or a platform for cooperation? And could the expanding bloc become a geopolitical rival to the US and its allies?

This week's panel:
Pablo Foley Elias
Alex Forrest Whiting
Michaela Cavanagh
Cherie Chan

Guests:
Konstantin Eggert, DW Russia Analyst
Ali Wyne, Senior Research and Advocacy Adviser, Crisis Group

Chapters
00:00 Introduction -- BRICS and the future world order
04:28 What is BRICS?
09:22 What does Russia get out of the summit?
12:46 Russia's financial isolation
15:50 BRICS plan for global payment system
21:07 Russian reaction to BRICS summit
23:13 Is Russia isolated?
25:15 Ukraine war as BRICS summit issue
27:11 Geopolitical symbolism of BRICS
31:09 Expansion of BRICS
33:52 China-India relations
35:25 India and "multi-alignment"
40:25 The future of Western "hegemony"
43:50 US election and impact of foreign policy
50:45 Wrap and poll result

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[Definingpureness]

West should know there are three more directions called EAST, NORTH, SOUTH

[bhaveshthakor]

After listening this DW remembered jaishankar comments.. that Europe need to come out of this mind set that Europe 's problem is world problem but when it comes to others is not Europe 's problem....and also USA and European still have colonial mindset to dictate others...

[madansubedi]

Visa and MasterCard are not global payment systems, they are purely American

[evifiouri]

Iran and Saudi Arabia have come to an agreement some months ago and so have China and India concerning their frontier issues. Who are you trying to fool?

[MsRanjankumarsingh]

Nobody seems to be an expert and the level of discussion is shallow.

[Moonuuu]

Cry more western propogenda machine DW

[Truthfully]

West used Canada to poke India..India is pissed

[kuldeeps]

Brazil, Russia, India & China = Real & Founding "BRIC", Serious economies & Muscles While Rest others like SA, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt have some aspirations and that is also good. More power to this organization.

[ondiekibosire]

The west doesn't understand the BRICS .Unity in diversity. Mutual respect. Mutually beneficial agreements.

[ujjwalkrgohain]

The West's perception of BRICS through a colonial mindset has contributed to the formation of the BRICS alliance.

[frankiedehockie]

This guest knows nothing about the BRICS.

The payment system is to allow for trade in local currencies not to replace local currencies.

[Yagyavalk]

If Brics is useless then why are u discussing brics for 1 hour😂😂

[dmode]

This DW Analyst is salty and jealous. Viva BRICS.

[jaspaljan]

Wd INDIANS will always stand with Russia.

We cannot forget that when America and west were financing Osama bin laden and Pakistan in 1971 against India, USSR stood with us..

[AB__AB]

Get some guests who can actually speak. Geez.

[ghteo]

why west can lead? population? GDP? technologies? military? you, the west, can't dominate in any of these field now, how dare you?

[frankiedehockie]

Constantine knows nothing about what he is talking about.

[k.s.mountakis]

If you want to understand why BRICS decided to coalesce, just read the comments and admire the arrogance of westerners.

[Drunkieman]

This is just depressing, really. Sad to see what DW has become - I used to come here and listen to all the different (yet constructive) opinions on all sort of matters. Now the narrative has been reduced to a marvel-esque 'US and friends good - Everybody else bad'.

[sridhar]

German lost its independent foreign policy. 😢