India, Sept. 15 -- BRICS wants to build a multipolar world less dependent on Western power. Yet its own members remain deeply dependent on competing centres of technology, finance, energy, markets and security. The New Delhi summit exposed the uncomfortable gap between the rhetoric of autonomy and the realities of interdependence

Nearly 50 pages of the Delhi Declaration were adopted at the New Delhi BRICS summit last week, while the Houthi advance in the Red Sea and its seizure of major positions around a critical maritime chokepoint were pulling the world's supply chains towards another dangerous rupture. The Trump administration's military intervention in Iran, carried out with Israeli support, has demonstrated how rapidly the language...