China backs enlargement of BRICS grouping with ‘like-minded companions’

By Press Trust of India: China on Thursday talked about Beijing views the BRICS as an “open and inclusive” platform and it backs strikes to develop the five-member grouping with “like-minded partners”.

Asked at a media briefing proper right here about experiences saying that India wishes an settlement to be reached on the strategy of accelerating BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning talked about she had not seen the report nonetheless “in principle, China always holds that BRICS is open and inclusive”.

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“We assist BRICS enlargement and welcome additional like-minded companions to hitch the BRICS family,” she talked about.

As BRICS worldwide places proposed to hold the next summit in South Africa in August this 12 months, media experiences say quite a few worldwide places have evinced curiosity in turning into a member of the grouping of rising markets.

According to experiences, 19 worldwide places — Argentina, Nicaragua, Mexico, Uruguay, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Senegal, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Turkiye, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Thailand, Kazakhstan, and Bangladesh — have evinced curiosity in turning into a member of the BRICS grouping.

The BRICS brings collectively 5 of a very powerful creating worldwide places of the world, representing 41 per cent of the worldwide inhabitants, 24 per cent of the worldwide GDP, and 16 per cent of the worldwide commerce.