Xi urges BRICS to unite as single family and avoid tiny circles
Chinese President Xi Jinping praised the BRICS mechanism for displaying resiliency and vitality during the current global crisis in a virtual speech at the 14th BRICS Summit in Beijing on Thursday. He urged the mechanism to remain open and inclusive in order to welcome like-minded partners to join the large BRICS family, while vehemently opposing the misuse of unilateral sanctions and rejecting "small circles" centered on hegemony. Chinese analysts said the summit sent a strong message to the world that multilateral institutions formed by major non-Western economies, like BRICS, can effectively represent the majority of the international community in making joint efforts in addition to Western-dominated organizations that have hurt the global economy through bloc-to-bloc conflict and misuse of sanctions. A laborious global economic recovery, the continuous spread of COVID-19, and more pressing challenges with peace and security have plagued the world in recent months, ...