BRICS 2026: India’s Deft Diplomatic Handling

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Asad Mirza asad.mirza.nd@gmail.com At the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India converted convening power into diplomatic leverage. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s engagements with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, emerging Iran-UAE contacts, renewed peace language and calls for a more representative United Nations together revealed New Delhi’s central advantage: strategic autonomy with practical influence. India’s most important achievement at BRICS 2026 was not a single agreement but the creation of diplomatic space among adversaries. New Delhi hosted Russia, China, Iran, the UAE and other major developing powers at a moment when the international system is strained by the Russia-Ukraine war,…

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