Breaking: BRICS to have 11 members next year, no longer 5, and just around US$20 Trillion GDP gap with G7.

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Johannesburg 9.49am / DC 3.49am / Beijing 3.49pm

In a joint statement, as host BRICS, President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa says BRICS formally invite Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, UAE, and Egypt to join the alliance. Membership of new countries will take effect from Jan 1st, 2024. President Cyril says BRICS is a catalyst for global growth, mentioned the Bandung Conference - Asia Africa Conference, 1955.

Indonesia's President Sukarno and India's prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru were key organizers (Bandung Conference), in their quest to build a nonaligned movement that would win the support of the newly emerging nations of Asia and Africa. Indian Prime Minister Modi, next September to be host of G20 Summit, has declared India's commitment to assisting nations in acquiring "partner country" status within BRICS, for those aspiring to join the group.

Sadly not "BRICS official invitation membership bid" for President of Indonesia Joko Widodo although Jokowi was in South Africa.

If BRICS officially has 11 members next year, total GDP rocketed to be around US$33 Trillion. Currently (5 members) US$27 Trillion. GDP G7 US$51 Trillion. BRICS expansion shows attractiveness of a counterweight to G7. Members are united by dissatisfaction with power distribution & exercise in existing international system but don’t necessarily agree on what distribution & exercise of power in better system would look like.

Yesterday, India made history – and by government standards, its Chandrayaan-3 moon landing came at a remarkably low cost. Former NASA chief James Frederick Bridenstine says "they should feel very proud of this accomplishment."

Envoys and Embassies based in New Delhi including of Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Israel, France, Russia, Sweden, Japan, Türkiye, Australia, and Germany Extend Congratulations to India on Chandrayaan-3 Moon Landing. Chinese President Xi Jinping exchange pleasantry with PM Narendra Modi, shake hands and laud India's Chandrayaan 3. Currently only 4 countries reach moon landing (U.S., Russia, China, and India).

China's President Xi at the BRICS summit: "some country [hint: the USA], obsessed with maintaining its hegemony, has gone out of its way to cripple the EMDCs (emerging markets and developing countries). Whoever is developing fast becomes its target of containment; whoever is catching up becomes its target of obstruction."

China stays committed to an independent foreign policy of peace and the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. As a developing country and a member of the Global South, China breathes the same breath with other developing countries and pursues a shared future with them. China has resolutely upheld the common interests of developing countries and worked to increase the representation and voice of EMDCs in global affairs. Hegemonism is not in China’s DNA; nor does China have any motivation to engage in major-power competition. China stands firmly on the right side of history, and believes that a just cause should be pursued for the common good.

At present, we (Xi Jinping) Chinese, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, are advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts by pursuing Chinese modernization. Chinese modernization aims to achieve common prosperity, material and cultural-ethical advancement, harmony between humanity and nature, and peaceful development for a huge population. Chinese modernization has created a new form of human advancement and presented a new future of modernization. We hope that other developing countries can draw on the outstanding achievements of human civilization and find their own paths to modernization in keeping with their national conditions.

BRICS also called for setting defined timelines for UNSC (UN Security Council - only 5 members since 1945) reforms. Since long time, India has a desired to be a new permanent member of UNSC, not only (exception) 2 countries who legally has a nuclear weapon alongside Pakistan and all UNSC members.

Calls on BRICS to support inclusion of African Union. Proposes BRICS satellite constellation, cooperation on Education, skill development & technology.

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Mandarin:

他呼吁金砖成员国“加快推动”它们在抗衡西方方面的作用。

他呼吁加速金砖国家的扩员进程，让更多国家加入到该组织。他还呼吁，金砖国家要一起反对“脱钩断链”和“经济胁迫” 日本股市崩盘，银行系统持续信贷紧缩，导致经济停滞至今。

未来的经济命运在很大程度上取决于全球绿色转型的速度和规模。

金砖国家（BRICS）领导人宣布邀请沙特阿拉伯、伊朗、埃塞俄比亚、埃及、阿根廷和阿拉伯联合酋长国加入，此举将进一步加强该集团在发展中国家的影响力。

金砖国家合作机制目前由巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非组成。 沙特是全球最大的原油出口国，它的加入将使中国、巴西和印度在能源安全方面得到更多保障。

加入金砖国家对于受到制裁的伊朗也至关重要。 南非总统拉马福萨（Cyril Ramaphosa）在金砖国家峰会上宣布了这一决定。他说：“金砖国家在努力建设一个公平、公正、包容和繁荣的世界方面，开启了新的篇章。” 这六个国家均已表示有意加入，它们预计将于2024年1月1日正式被接纳为成员国。

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