Did BRICS Help Thaw India-China Ties? Now Comes The Real Test

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The just-concluded BRICS summit in Delhi may not be remembered for a particularly muscular declaration. But that may miss its more important consequence for India. Did BRICS help accelerate the thaw in India-China relations? India’s diplomatic achievement was not that it convened the summit, since it was anyway the BRICS chair. It was that it managed to hammer out a common declaration among countries whose interests frequently collide. Iran and the UAE could sit around the same table despite their tensions; China could sign language condemning the Pahalgam terrorist attack; and members could agree on a dialogue in West Asia…

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