India: The Rising Star of BRICS Investment
India is being positioned as a key investment hub for BRICS businesses, with the BRICS Summit highlighting opportunities for trade, technology sharing, and joint ventures.
India is being positioned as a key investment hub for BRICS businesses, with the BRICS Summit highlighting opportunities for trade, technology sharing, and joint ventures.
A China Daily editorial cited by ANI argues that expanding BRICS cooperation can strengthen development-chain resilience for Global South economies through trade diversification, connectivity, local-currency settlement, and institutional support.
An opinion piece examines India’s BRICS presidency priorities, including Women-Led Development, cross-border payments, MSME resilience, renewable energy, supply chains, and a reformist multilateral approach.
India’s trade deficit with BRICS partners widened to $226.1 billion in 2025-26, driven mainly by imports from China, while members discuss local-currency trade, digital payments and MSME finance.
BRICS leaders are expected to discuss a digital incubator network, a startup innovation fund and a voluntary logistics supply-chain framework aimed at strengthening innovation, financing and resilient trade logistics.
The BRICS Summit could focus on energy security, local currency payments, critical minerals, and transport cooperation amid West Asia tensions.
A BRICS business body official backed local currency and digital transaction systems for a multipolar economic framework and urged India to strengthen exports to BRICS economies.
CAIT National General Secretary and MP Praveen Khandelwal said BRICS can strengthen India’s role in the Global South and expand trade, investment and exports for Indian businesses.
The 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi will feature Modi-Xi bilateral talks, focus on the Strategy for BRICS Economic Partnership 2030, and explore practical cross-border digital payment frameworks.