The U.S.-led global order has run into a BRICS wall

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Open this photo in gallery: President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of China Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Aug., 23.POOL/AFP/Getty Images Frank Ching is a Hong Kong-based freelance journalist. In March, as Chinese President Xi Jinping was ending his state visit to Russia, he bid an emotional farewell to his host, Vladimir Putin. “Right now there are changes the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years,”...