This chapter explores the recent expansion of the BRICS alliance and its implications for global geopolitics, discussing the history of BRICS and its evolving significance in the changing international landscape.
The alliance was always based more on common fortunes than common interests. We ask what to make of the six new members, and whether the bloc’s motley nature undermines its purpose. Regulation has struggled in an era when children can become “influencers”, but it is starting to catch up (9:36). And remembering Bindeshwar Pathak, who realised India’s future depended on toilets (16:28).
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