BRICS Aspires to Occupy Global Ground Vacated by US Under Trump

BRICS Aspires to Occupy Global Ground Vacated by US Under Trump

Ever since BRICS was founded more than a decade ago, the group of emerging-market nations has struggled to identify a common purpose. President Donald Trump’s tariffs may have solved that problem.

Can the world be governed without the US?

Global governance is a tricky thing at the best of times. As the United Nations turns eighty, its charter’s opening words — “We, the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war…” — are sounding rather hollow. The UN has not only failed to prevent war but its 1945-rooted governance regime, with the five permanent members of the Security Council (the United States, Britain, France, Russia and Ch…

Can BRICS Fill the Trump Vacuum?

The world is waiting to see whether the expanding group of countries can take advantage of the window of opportunity presented by the restructuring of the international order and become new protagonists in global governance.

Trump’s foreign policy vacuum fuels BRICS global ambitions

Trump’s White House comeback in 2025 has triggered fresh tension on the global stage, and BRICS isn’t wasting the opportunity. The bloc—originally Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—is using the power void left by the US president’s isolationist push to regroup and flex. According to...