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Exactly. Brics is more a term used in the west to describe not-us large countries than anything that actually exists for those countries. India and China have a

• fellowniusmonk 3y ago
  First time I saw BRIC was over a decade ago plastered all over Brasil.
• dragonwriter 3y ago
  > Brics is more a term used in the west to describe not-us large countries than anything that actually exists for those countries. That’s where (as BRIC – without South Africa, though the countries together were sometimes called “the BRICs”) it originated 20+ years ago, but then the countries got together, for their own reasons, and made it an real (or, at least, formally official) bloc. Each of them uses it for their own image puffing, and its been particularly important in that role for Russia lately (especially with CSTO being shown to be worthless.) Still not clear that the bloc (despite having an official organization, membership, summits, etc.) is all that meaningful substantively.