Talk:BRICS+

The BRICS are overrated

• The BRICS Summit: Significant or Hoopla?, 2023 video
• The BRICS Are a Joke, video
• The BRICS Summit: Significant or Hoopla?, 2023 video
• Brics: The G-7 Economic Alliance’s Rival, Explained | WSJ
• BRICS: Emerging counterweight in a multipolar world? | DW Analysis
• Can the BRICS Dethrone the US Dollar?, Bloomberg Television, 2023
• Why the BRICS will fail!, Economics in Action, 2023 - video
• China’s Evil BRICS Plan: India & Brazil Push Back Against Xi’s Bid To Expand Grouping, 2023
• Brazil and India seem lukewarm about the enlargement of BRICS, strategist says, 2023
• Member Countries Push Back China's Attempts to Hijack BRICS, Palki Sharma, 2023

The China boom years party is over. The non-China members of BRICS will have to step up their game:

• China’s 40-Year Boom Is Over. What Comes Next?, The economic model that took the country from poverty to great-power status seems broken, and everywhere are signs of distress, Wall Street Journal, 2023

India is one of the best candidates for future economic growth and they are a nonaligned country that is a democracy. India is not an authoritarian country like China. India is the 5th biggest country in GNP in the below graph.

"The United States and China are undoubtedly the two most powerful countries, but at least one more country must be roughly in their league for multipolarity to exist. This is where claims of multipolarity fall apart. Every country that could plausibly rank third—France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom—is in no way a rough peer of the United States or China." -The Myth of Multipolarity, American Power’s Staying Power, Foreign Affairs, 2023

However, a number of leading geopolitical analysts are skeptical about China remaining a global power as it faces a number of serious intractable problems (See: Skepticism about China remaining a global power).

I believe the USA should make some cut to its defense budget and focus more on cutting its federal debt.

So India offers one of the best chances of BRICS country's GNP growth. Conservative (talk)