Brian Wong and Kevin Zongzhe Li note in their article for ‘The Diplomat’ that the BRICS countries have received growing attention and visibility in international discourses over recent years – in part due to intensifying geopolitical fissures between some members of the grouping and the proverbial “West,” and in part because of a series of expansions that resulted in the bloc doubling in size. The grouping has shown growing capacity for collective maneuvering in multilateral bodies, where coordinated voting patterns amplify grievances of the Global South. With only 13.24 percent of the voting rights in the World Bank, BRICS+ countries have a long way to go within existing multilateral institutions. The disproportionality between their economic and geopolitical heft, and their level of (under-)representation at the “table” creates friction points that the West cannot ignore. https://thediplomat.com

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