Chinese President Xi Jinping announced initiatives at the Brics summit in New Delhi to enhance cooperation among "Greater Brics" nations, focusing on areas like artificial intelligence and trade. The expanded Brics group now includes Iran, Indonesia, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates, along with its original members Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Xi emphasized the need for pragmatic cooperation to boost the global influence of these emerging economies, proposing an AI Open Source Zone and a Special Economic Zone partnership. The summit also saw consensus on a joint declaration addressing tensions in the Middle East, marking a diplomatic achievement despite ongoing conflicts involving Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled on Sunday initiatives in areas ranging from AI to trade to deepen cooperation among the “Greater Brics” emerging economies, as Beijing seeks to weld the grouping into a practical platform for Global South development.
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Cooperation in areas from politics and security to economics and finance are the main focus areas of the grouping, with 2026 chair India and 2027 chair China seeking wider partnership to boost its global clout.
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The success of the “Greater Brics Initiative” depends on laying a solid foundation for pragmatic cooperation, Xi told the leaders’ annual summit in New Delhi, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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“Greater Brics” nations should further co-operate, maintain the stability of industrial and supply chains, and cultivate an integrated market, Xi told the summit’s closing session.
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China will take the lead in establishing a Brics AI Open Source Zone to promote cooperation on large language models, AI training and an open AI ecosystem, Xi added.
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He also proposed a Brics Special Economic Zone partnership and said China would host a Brics Service Trade Forum next year to boost trade and investment ties.
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Expanded role for ‘Greater Brics’ grouping
Brics has expanded to include Iran, Indonesia, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates beyond an original membership of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa two decades ago that aimed to transform a world order dominated by the United States.
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In addition, 10 partner countries span emerging economies across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, broadening its reach across the Global South.
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China and Russia sometimes refer to this larger bloc as “Greater Brics”.
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Brics helps create fairer world order, Putin says
The benefits of solutions developed within Brics should not stay limited to Brics alone, but should be made adaptable and accessible to meet the needs of the Global South, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in remarks earlier.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called Brics a powerful driving force towards creating a new, fairer and multipolar world order, urging its members to find ways to combine the competitive advantages of their individual economies.
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The summit comes amid renewed fighting in the Gulf region, with tit-for-tat attacks by the United States and Iran and Houthis widening the conflict by launching attacks on Saudi Arabia.
But the weekend summit scored an important diplomatic goal on Saturday, when it managed to forge consensus on a joint declaration backed by Iran and the UAE.
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In general terms, the declaration expressed deep concern over the continued escalation of tension in the Middle East and urged the exercise of maximum restraint.
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Separately, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also met the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi on the sidelines, in the highest-level meeting of the two countries’ officials since the start of the conflict.
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They discussed issues ranging from de-escalation and stability, and efforts to advance regional peace and development.
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Brics leaders including China, Russia and India, entered a second day of talks in New Delhi on Sunday, discussing “inclusive global growth”, after reaching rare agreement calling for calm in the Middle East.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for “cooperation” within the bloc, which he has said represents “50 per cent of the world’s population, 40pc of global GDP and more than 25pc of global trade”.
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“The power of Brics lies in our diversity and cooperation,” Modi told leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the final day of talks.
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“We have tried to push inclusive global growth,” Modi said.
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“We may be rooted in different realities, but together we rise through cooperation and blossom for humanity,” he said.
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Brics was created in 2009 as a forum for major emerging economies seeking greater influence in institutions dominated by Western powers.
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The group is seeking to bolster its global influence and address conflict, trade turbulence and energy security.
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The first day of the summit on Saturday was dominated by the conflict in the Middle East.
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Brics foreign ministers had failed to agree on a joint statement in New Delhi in May, with Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates divided over the war that began with US-Israeli strikes on February 28.
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However, leaders — who also included Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian — issued a statement after intense diplomatic efforts by host India.
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“We express deep concern over the continued escalation of tensions in Middle East/West Asia,” the joint statement said, adding that the Brics countries “call for exercising maximum restraint”.
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Modi maintains cordial relations with both Iran and US ally Israel, but is also careful to strike a delicate balance in India’s ties with Washington.
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India has navigated the energy crisis caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran in part by turning to Russia, despite Moscow’s war in Ukraine and pressure from Washington and other Western capitals.
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‘Advancing together’
Xi’s participation in Brics is also important because it is his first visit to neighbouring India since 2019, and the biggest step yet in a cautious thaw between the nuclear-armed rivals.
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His visit comes six years after a deadly military clash along the disputed Tibetan border between China and India, with ties gradually improving through restored flights, visas and high-level contacts.
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“Although our two countries are different in many respects, they are fully capable of complementing each other’s strengths, supporting one another, achieving mutual success and advancing together,” Xi said as he met Modi, according to a video released by New Delhi.
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The underlying territorial dispute remains unresolved, and both sides retain heavy military deployments along their roughly 3,500-kilometre (2,175-mile) high-altitude border.
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India’s foreign ministry said in a statement after the meeting that “the two leaders expressed commitment to a fair, reasonable, and mutually acceptable resolution of the boundary question”.
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Deep mistrust remains, with a widening trade deficit and strategic rivalry complicating ties.
“Both sides should … work hand-in-hand to promote high-quality major financial cooperation, advocate an equal and sustainable global order, and foster an economic globalisation that is open and inclusive,” Xi said.
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Xi’s visit was the target of protests by dozens of Tibetans in New Delhi, exiles like their Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since fleeing a Chinese crackdown in 1959.
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