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Brazil hosts BRICS summit, eager to avoid provoking Trump’s ire
- The leaders of the BRICS nations gathered for their summit in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro on the 6th and 7th of July, 2025, with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva serving as the chair.
- The summit followed last year's rapid BRICS expansion and notable absences of key leaders Xi Jinping and Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi amid global tensions and Putin's ICC arrest warrant.
- Brazil pursued a technical agenda focusing on six priorities—healthcare, climate change, trade, AI governance, peace-making, and institutional development—to avoid provoking US tariff threats.
- At the summit's opening, Lula remarked that allocating resources to war tends to be simpler than investing in peace, condemned NATO's plan to increase military spending to 5% of GDP, and urged BRICS to focus on fostering peace and reforming global governance.
- The summit yielded cautious statements on Ukraine and Middle Eastern conflicts, condemned rising tariffs, and highlighted challenges for BRICS to become a cohesive global leadership pole.
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