{"id":3971,"date":"2023-08-02T19:13:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2023-08-02T19:13:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T17:13:19","slug":"brazil-opposes-brics-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=3971","title":{"rendered":"Brazil opposes BRICS expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Brazil is resisting gathering momentum in the BRICS group of major emerging economies to add more member countries, but debate over admission criteria seems inevitable at this month&#8217;s summit, Reuters reported citing its sources.<\/p>\n<p>China, Russia and South Africa are mostly in favor of expansion, while India and Brazil seek a clear process for admitting new members that is acceptable to the entire group.<\/p>\n<p>BRICS currently accounts for more than 40% of the world&#8217;s population and about 26% of the global economy. Some 30 countries have expressed interest, and over a dozen have already submitted formal applications to join BRICS. <\/p>\n<p>Brazil is concerned that the group will lose credibility if other countries are admitted. India, on the other hand, &#8220;has reservations about expansion,&#8221; believing that new members should be admitted only &#8220;through consensus.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Brazil will insist at the upcoming summit that any expansion should be gradual, maintain regional balance and keep pre-eminent roles for the five permanent members, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>New members could be admitted as partner countries participating in summits without becoming full members as in other international organizations, they added.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil is resisting gathering momentum in the BRICS group of major emerging economies to add more member countries, but debate over admission criteria seems inevitable at this month&#8217;s summit, Reuters reported citing its sources. China, Russia and South Africa are mostly in favor of expansion, while India and Brazil seek a clear process for admitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}