Chinese President Xi Jinping urged BRICS members to uphold the UN Charter, support a two-state solution, deepen AI cooperation, and defend the WTO-centered multilateral trading system.
The second day of the 18th BRICS Summit features an open session on India’s chairship pillars, following adoption of the New Delhi Declaration 2026.
BRICS’ New Delhi Declaration addressed terrorism, tariffs and artificial intelligence, with the bloc raising serious concerns over unilateral trade measures and their conflict with WTO rules.
At the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, an Egyptian AI expert praised India’s leadership and the summit’s emphasis on artificial intelligence, sovereign AI, technology cooperation, and the adoption of the New Delhi Declaration 2026.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BRICS leaders toured 37 Indian deep-tech startups at the BRICS Bharat Innovates exposition in New Delhi, held as part of India’s BRICS chairship and alongside the 18th BRICS Summit.
India proposed BRICS digital public infrastructure repositories and capacity-building centres to support knowledge exchange, digital transformation and workforce development among member states.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto attended the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, where the New Delhi Declaration emphasized education, innovation, and people-to-people exchange among BRICS member states.
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin shared the stage at the BRICS summit, but the article argues the central story was India’s diplomacy and its ability to build consensus.
BRICS’ New Delhi Declaration reaffirms support for preventing an arms race in outer space, opposes weaponization and threats to satellites, and commits to reducing space capability asymmetries among member states.
