NationalInterestPod: BRICS isn’t a front against Trump, US or ‘evil West’. It’s the most irrelevant of all such groupings

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings. The three strongmen in this breathless buildup share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. Russia is China’s ally—dependent, too, to some extent. India sees China as an existential adversary. And China sees the other two as so weak that it can determine the rules of the game, and be the umpire; first, second and third.Watch this week’s #NationalInterest with ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta