This summit was a win for India's balancing act, not a coronation for an anti-Western bloc. Getting Iran, the UAE, China and Russia to sign one declaration took real diplomatic muscle, and Modi was right to keep the language neutral instead of naming names. Consensus reached by dodging the hardest fights, including Ukraine, shows a group still long on ambition and short on answers.
Twenty years on, BRICS is the most influential platform emerging economies have, and New Delhi proved it. A bloc producing half of global GDP growth, moving $1.2 trillion in internal trade and building payment channels beyond Washington's reach is reshaping the rules, not just complaining about them. Unilateral sanctions and tariffs deserve the condemnation this declaration delivered.
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