Beijing Review

BRICS Remains Robust

The author is a research fellow with the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

The virtual summit of the emergingmarket bloc that groups Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) convened on November 17.

Against the backdrop of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the 12th BRICS Summit achieved productive results in three key areas—political and security cooperation, economic cooperation, and people-to-people exchanges.

The pandemic has brought about new possibilities for future collaboration and prompted BRICS countries to step up their partnership in the new industrial revolution and digitization.

Rising BRICS

As the world is caught between the pandemic of the century and momentous changes never witnessed in the last

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