Is Trump a BRICS Secret Agent?
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-trade-war-alienating-friends-and-going-easy-on-adversaries-by-jim-o-neill-2025-08
His rhetoric notwithstanding, US President Donald Trump is going easy on China and Russia, while pushing away Brazil, India, South Africa, and America’s fellow G7 members. Does he want to give the BRICS+ group of major emerging economies and others an even stronger reason to develop alternatives to the Western-dominated order?
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-trade-war-alienating-friends-and-going-easy-on-adversaries-by-jim-o-neill-2025-08
His rhetoric notwithstanding, US President Donald Trump is going easy on China and Russia, while pushing away Brazil, India, South Africa, and America’s fellow G7 members. Does he want to give the BRICS+ group of major emerging economies and others an even stronger reason to develop alternatives to the Western-dominated order?
With U.S. Ties on the Rocks, India Draws Closer to China
https://time.com/7310270/china-india-us-trump-xi-modi-tariffs-trade-russia-oil
Ultimately, though, the perception of the U.S. as an unreliable partner will “increase the international trend toward greater multipolarity,” Lidarev tells TIME.
“Not only will India’s role as an independent pole less tied to the U.S. grow, but its closer relations with China, Russia, and the E.U. will strengthen these actors’ positions as other major poles in the international system,” he says. Furthermore, the dynamic could legitimize emerging international institutions like BRICS “as a hedge against dependence on Washington.”
Trump Is Pushing India Back Toward China
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/world/asia/india-china-trump.html
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been moving to align India with the United States and freeze out China. Now, efforts to rebuild ties between the Asian giants are gaining momentum.
https://time.com/7310270/china-india-us-trump-xi-modi-tariffs-trade-russia-oil
Ultimately, though, the perception of the U.S. as an unreliable partner will “increase the international trend toward greater multipolarity,” Lidarev tells TIME.
“Not only will India’s role as an independent pole less tied to the U.S. grow, but its closer relations with China, Russia, and the E.U. will strengthen these actors’ positions as other major poles in the international system,” he says. Furthermore, the dynamic could legitimize emerging international institutions like BRICS “as a hedge against dependence on Washington.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/world/asia/india-china-trump.html
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been moving to align India with the United States and freeze out China. Now, efforts to rebuild ties between the Asian giants are gaining momentum.
Trump is attacking Brazil to weaken BRICS – but his plan might backfire
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/08/trump-attacking-brazil-weaken-brics-his-plan-might-backfire
Trump is using Brazil to send a warning to other assertive middle powers. But the attack on a sovereign country’s democratic institutions risks damaging the United States’ global standing.
A Stealth Target of Trump’s Brazil Tariffs
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-tariffs-on-brazil-also-target-pix-national-payment-system-by-rogerio-studart-2025-08
US President Donald Trump’s crippling 50% tariff on Brazil is aimed not only at bending a sovereign country’s judiciary to his will, but also at beating back a challenge to the US-led financial order. Pix, Brazil’s government-backed payments system, is a step toward creating a new kind of monetary system free of dollar hegemony.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-tariffs-on-brazil-also-target-pix-national-payment-system-by-rogerio-studart-2025-08
US President Donald Trump’s crippling 50% tariff on Brazil is aimed not only at bending a sovereign country’s judiciary to his will, but also at beating back a challenge to the US-led financial order. Pix, Brazil’s government-backed payments system, is a step toward creating a new kind of monetary system free of dollar hegemony.
How China’s $285M Export Hub in Brazil Will Cost U.S. Billions
https://youtu.be/A4l_wHA8kvk
https://youtu.be/A4l_wHA8kvk
The True Meaning of Trump’s Tariffs
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-tariffs-are-geopolitical-not-economic-by-carla-norrlof-2025-08
If US President Donald Trump’s constantly changing trade policies were really about closing economic imbalances or applying market leverage, the recently unveiled tariff schedule would reflect this logic. Instead, the figures make clear that the tariffs are meant to reward geopolitical alignment and punish independence.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-tariffs-are-geopolitical-not-economic-by-carla-norrlof-2025-08
If US President Donald Trump’s constantly changing trade policies were really about closing economic imbalances or applying market leverage, the recently unveiled tariff schedule would reflect this logic. Instead, the figures make clear that the tariffs are meant to reward geopolitical alignment and punish independence.