BRICS Summit Pushes Growth, Urges Middle East Restraint — SkimNews
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- BRICS leaders from China, Russia and India wrapped talks in New Delhi on Sept 13, with PM Narendra Modi noting the bloc represents 50% of world population, 40% of global GDP and over 25% of global trade.
- BRICS issued a rare joint statement calling for 'maximum restraint' in the Middle East after foreign ministers failed to agree in May, when Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were split over US-Israeli strikes that began Feb 28.
- Xi Jinping's New Delhi visit was his first to India since 2019, marking a cautious thaw six years after a deadly military clash along the disputed Tibetan border, with both sides still holding heavy deployments along the roughly 3,500km frontier.
- India has navigated the energy crisis caused by the US-Iran war in part by turning to Russia, despite Moscow's war in Ukraine and pressure from Washington and other Western capitals.
- Vladimir Putin told leaders the bloc was building a 'new, more just, multipolar world order,' while Xi warned 'a world without rules is like an intersection without traffic lights.'
- Dozens of Tibetan exiles protested Xi's visit in New Delhi; the article notes the Dalai Lama has lived in India since fleeing a Chinese crackdown in 1959.
Why it matters: India got BRICS — including Iranian President Pezeshkian — to back a Middle East restraint statement after ministers failed in May, while Xi's first India visit since 2019 shows the bilateral thaw is real but still bounded by an unresolved 3,500km border dispute.
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