China keeps deepening ties with neighbors and Global South states through high-level diplomacy, assembling a bloc that runs parallel to Western-led alliances and hardens a multipolar order.
strengthening · confidence 94 · +16 7d · +37 30d · Short term (next 30 days) · tracking since July 16, 2026 · updated September 14, 2026
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The BRICS New Delhi declaration commits members to settle more trade in their own currencies and to link national payment systems, while Xi Jinping offered the bloc an open-source artificial-intelligence zone. Payment-system interlinkage is the durable piece: it builds plumbing that persists independently of any common currency, which the declaration explicitly declined to create.
China's Sudan negotiations coincide with developing states pressing for a larger role in setting global economic rules, per today's reporting. Commercial positions in ports and power are the material base under the rule-setting claim, tying infrastructure finance to bloc formation.
The eleven-member BRICS bloc adopted a New Delhi Declaration condemning attacks on nuclear facilities as breaches of international law and demanding protection of global trade routes, pointedly without naming the US strikes on Iran, after India brokered a Tehran-UAE dispute. The bloc is now producing collective legal language on a live Western military action and resolving its own internal disputes without Western mediation.
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Supporting · September 14, 2026
BRICS Agrees to Settle More Trade in Its Own Currencies and Link Payment Systems
The BRICS New Delhi declaration commits members to settle more trade in their own currencies and to link national payment systems, while Xi Jinping offered the bloc an open-source artificial-intelligence zone. Payment-system interlinkage is the durable piece: it builds plumbing that persists independently of any common currency, which the declaration explicitly declined to create.
EuronewsSupporting · September 13, 2026
BRICS Adopts New Delhi Declaration Urging Restraint Without Naming the US Strikes on Iran
The eleven-member BRICS bloc adopted a New Delhi Declaration condemning attacks on nuclear facilities as breaches of international law and demanding protection of global trade routes, pointedly without naming the US strikes on Iran, after India brokered a Tehran-UAE dispute. The bloc is now producing collective legal language on a live Western military action and resolving its own internal disputes without Western mediation.
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