The US administration does not see the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) as its geopolitical rival. Jake Sullivan, the President’s National Security Advisor, made the statement. TASS.
“We don’t see the BRICS as some kind of geopolitical rival to the US or something that could turn into something like that. This is a very diverse group of countries in its current form – Brazil, India, South Africa are democracies, and Russia and China are autocracies – on critical issues in the Indo-Pacific region, the war in Ukraine, they disagree on a number of issues. of other matters.”, – he said.
A day ago, Asia Times reported that BRICS has in recent years challenged a set of principles on which the US global leadership in the world has been built. If the organization expands, it will strengthen its anti-American position. As events unfolded in this way, the United States ignore BRICS as a political force.
Nelson Kgwete, spokesman for the South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs before that, stated that there were more than 40 heads of state. will attend Interstate association BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit to be held in Johannesburg on 22-24 August under the presidency of the Republic of South Africa.
According to the Financial Times, one of the main topics of the upcoming BRICS summit Will be The largest expansion of the organization in the last 10 years.
previously in the USA saw The possibility of increasing the impact of the BRICS.