Chinese President Xi Jinping pushes for expanded Brics-Plus (Straits Times, 4 September 2017)

Chinese President Xi Jinping pushes for expanded Brics-Plus (Straits Times, 4 September 2017)

Chinese President Xi Jinping has lauded the successes of a grouping made up of the world’s five major emerging economies amid doubts over its relevance. Speaking yesterday on the eve of the annual Brics summit in the south-eastern Chinese city of Xiamen, he also emphasised that the bloc was no talk shop but a “task force that gets things done”. Mr Xi also pushed the Chinese concept of a Brics-Plus approach of involving other emerging markets and developing countries in the Brics forum, an idea first mooted earlier this year.