OPINION BY ILIYASU GADU: Should Nigeria join the BRICS? | TheCable
BRICS is an acronym taken from the first letters of the countries that constitute the group: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. They are the arrowhead of emerging countries determined to challenge the dominance of the United States of America and its Western allies in global affairs.
At the strategic level, both countries are battling with US containment policies in their immediate vicinities; Taiwan in the South China area and a hostile alliance with countries like Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and The Philippines to counter China. On Russia, US strategic containment policies have been to line up anti-Russia alliances with Baltic, Scandinavian and former East bloc countries.
India, Brazil and South Africa, which are regional powers in their respective continents and make up the other members of BRIC, have their mini agenda. Unlike Russia and China, they do not have any political and economic issues with the US and its allies. The three are countries with entrenched democratic structures which the US favours. Economically, the three have excellent economic relations with the US.
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