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‘Dollar Overreach’ and the BRICS Expansion

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‘Dollar Overreach’ and the BRICS Expansion
From left: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Chinese leader Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov raise their arms as they pose for a group photograph at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Aug. 23, 2023. Alet Pretorius/AFP via Getty Images
Gregory Copley
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The expansion of the BRICS bloc of states has highlighted the increasingly dissonant strategic and diplomatic initiatives by the United States and, lately, France and the European Union in Africa and the Middle East. These have hastened the decline of Western influence in those regions and the rise of a search by states there for alternative options.

Gregory Copley
Gregory Copley
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Gregory Copley is president of the Washington-based International Strategic Studies Association and editor-in-chief of the “Defense & Foreign Affairs” series of publications. Born in Australia, Copley is an entrepreneur, writer, government adviser, defense publication editor, and Member of the Order of Australia. His latest and 37th book is “The Noble State: Governance Options in an Ignoble Era.”
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