BRICS has expanded, can’t continue being anti-US. It’s up to India to balance

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On its part, China did not miss any opportunity to hit the US from the BRICS business forum. Incidentally, while Xi skipped the meeting, his minister of commerce Wang Wentao read out a prepared statement full of jibes at the ‘hegemonic’ US. Without naming the US, the statement advised the world leaders “not to sleepwalk into the abyss of a new Cold War”. The strongly worded statement also labeled the US as a country “going out of its way to cripple the emerging markets and developing countries”. “Whoever is developing fast, becomes its (US) target of containment. Whoever is catching...