The BRICS expansion symbolises a commitment to a new era of global cooperation, where the collective strength of emerging economies and developing countries converges to address the pressing issues of our time.
The international community must focus on peace and development and cooperate with Russia and China to bring about this better world.
To navigate these challenges successfully, adept diplomacy and consensus-building will be paramount.
The world is witnessing the awakening of the non-Western world and that the international order must change. This is the biggest consensus of the Global South and the BRICS countries.
The expansion of BRICS to eleven members will advance the process of building a community with a shared future for mankind.
The movement towards de-dollarization of global trade is still in its initial stage.
The added clout of six new members, local currency trade optimization, and developing world representation jointly underscore that collective action.
BRICS, by harnessing its collective strengths and leveraging common interests, continues to challenge the unfair global dominance of traditional powers. It seeks to promote multipolarity and a world that does not marginalize anyone.
China, and indeed the other BRICS members, do want to create multipolarity to replace what has long been and to some extent remains a unipolar world order.
BRICS is about achieving an equal international environment premised on multipolarity where each state can successfully attain its right to development in conjunction with national sovereignty.
BRICS, as a powerful voice for the Global South, will deliver a more fair and just world order.
The Johannesburg BRICS Summit will amplify the voice of the Global South while strengthening the position of BRICS as the new leaders of global governance.
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