China, Russia want to create alternative to G7 – media

Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports that Beijing and Moscow want to expand BRICS to include four more nations China and Russia want BRICS, a club of five major emerging economies, to become a counterweight to the Western-dominated Group of Seven (G7), a German newspaper has reported. To this end, Beijing and Moscow are apparently seeking to expand the group, whose other three members are Brazil, India and South Africa. In a report on Wednesday, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung claimed that since the start of Russia’s offensive against Ukraine, and the imposition of sweeping Western sanctions, Moscow has been trying to strengthen…