Jammu, Sept. 14 -- India will now have better bargaining power to deal with Trump

By Nitya Chakraborty

The 18th BRICS summit held in New Delhi on September 12 and 13 has helped India regain its stature in the Global South, which it had lost soon after the coming of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister in 2014. Exactly twelve years later, the same Narendra Modi hosted the expanded BRICS meet and showed his diplomatic skill in ensuring a joint declaration on the basis of consensus, organised rapprochement between Iran and its adversaries in West Asia, sent a message to Donald Trump without naming the USA on strong Global South objection to his unilateral tariff moves and trade war, and held bilateral meetings with Russian President Vladimir ...