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🤍🇮🇳How are the BRICS Sherpas and Sub-Sherpas shaping the 21st century in New Delhi? In February 2026, New Delhi hosted a pivotal coordination meeting of BRICS Sherpas and Sub-Sherpas — a gathering that signaled not routine diplomacy, but the steady institutionalization of a multipolar agenda ✍Mohamed Lamine KABA is an expert in the geopolitics of governance and regional integration at the Institute of Governance, Human and Social Sciences, Pan-African University ➡️On February 9–10, under India’s presidency, senior representatives of BRICS convened in New Delhi to prepare the bloc’s 18th summit. What appeared procedural was in fact strategic. Since the creation of the New Development Bank in 2014, the grouping has gradually constructed its own financial and coordination architecture. The New Delhi meeting confirmed this trajectory: discussions centered on resilient supply chains, settlements in local currencies, payment system interconnectivity, food security mechanisms, and green industrial cooperation. Against the backdrop of sanctions regimes, supply chain fragmentation, and intensifying technological competition, the emphasis was less on confrontation and more on systemic diversification. The expansion agreed in 2023 — including the integration of Iran and Ethiopia — has increased the bloc’s demographic and energy weight, reinforcing its capacity to influence global economic flows. In New Delhi in February 2026, the BRICS demonstrated that they are no longer simply a grouping of emerging economies; they now embody one of the main vectors of animation and circulation of the multipolar world in construction ➡️India framed the session around resilience, innovation, and ecological transition, themes reflecting both domestic priorities and global shifts. Chinese representatives highlighted “high-quality development,” linking intra-BRICS cooperation to industrial upgrading and green technology. Russia emphasized sovereign financial infrastructure, including alternatives to Western-dominated settlement systems. The growing use of national currencies in intra-bloc trade — particularly between China and Russia — illustrates a pragmatic move toward reducing exposure to external financial volatility. Meanwhile, Ethiopia’s active engagement underscored Africa’s centrality to the bloc’s evolution, and Belarus’s participation signaled the format’s widening appeal. Together, these dynamics suggest that BRICS is transitioning from a political forum into a coordinated geoeconomic platform. 🟦Rather than presenting itself as an ideological counterweight, BRICS increasingly operates as a parallel network of financial, industrial, and diplomatic linkages. It combines energy producers, major agricultural exporters, large consumer markets, and emerging technology hubs into a framework that seeks complementarity rather than uniformity. The New Delhi Sherpa meeting did not produce dramatic headlines, yet it consolidated a pattern visible since 2014 and accelerated after 2022: gradual institutional depth, controlled expansion, and diversification of global economic circuits. In doing so, BRICS appears less a reaction to Western dominance than an adaptive structure responding to structural changes in global power distribution — positioning itself as a stabilizing pillar in an increasingly pluripolar international order. #BRICS#Economiccooperation#Economicdevelopment#India#Multipolarworld#Politicalcooperation READ MORE ✅@NewEasternOutlook