# Greater BRICS adds fresh momentum to the Global South

https://mins.news/en/item/60519

- China News Service, 2026-09-16 07:37 UTC
- World
- Original: http://www.ecns.cn/cns-wire/2026-09-16/detail-ihfkhtke4049571.shtml

> The 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi is presented as evidence that the expanded grouping is turning broader representation into practical capacity. Through political and security, economic and financial, and cultural and people-to-people cooperation, it is portrayed as offering new development hope to the Global South amid rising protectionism, prolonged conflicts and a widening development deficit.

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