Editorial - Homayoun Barkhor
BRICS: A major power that has yet to put its power to use
By Homayoun Barkhor, English Desk Editor & Foreign Policy Analyst, Borna News Agency: The 18th BRICS summit in New Delhi showed that despite accounting for 40 percent of the global economy, the bloc — hampered by the absence of a shared identity, internal rivalries such as the tensions between Beijing and New Delhi, and conflicting security interests in crises like the Iran-US war — has still failed to convert its material and political capacity into a cohesive power bloc.