During Russia’s 2024 chairmanship of BRICS – a semi-formal intergovernmental bloc comprising key emerging markets and widely considered the Global South’s answer to the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies – four ASEAN states had been offered ‘partnership status’ in lieu of direct entry. Whereas Vietnam remains in “wait-and-see” mode, Thailand and Malaysia rushed headlong […]
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