David Pierson, Lynsey Chutel, Jack Nicas, Alex Travelli and Paul Sonne

David Pierson, Lynsey Chutel, Jack Nicas, Alex Travelli and Paul Sonne
The New York Times

The BRICS Club of Emerging Nations Debates Letting Others In

The group of nations known as BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — represents 40 percent of the world’s population and a quarter of the world’s economy. Now it is considering expanding, in a push to be seen as a credible counterweight to Western-led forums like the G7 group of…