| The BRICS Bank looks, for all its founding rhetoric, like a platform for Chinese hegemony instead. |
| This set of rankings adopts 8 indicators to select the top 100 higher learning institutions in BRICS countries. |
| The brics clearly rejected sanctions as a response to instability in the Ukraine. |
| The brics may have been the foundation for much of the global growth over the past few years. |
| Besides, in recent weeks, India has been party to the setting up of a brics Bank, with Brazil, Russia, China, and South Africa. |
| The West sometimes risks, by its actions, pushing the brics closer together, but there are underlying divides there. |
