The 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, has concluded. Despite its seemingly lively days, the summit was the largest in the BRICS's more than 20-year history, with 20 heads of state and 36 countries and organizations participating. The voluminous Kazan Declaration was adopted, but no substantive agreements were reached, and no changes were made to the existing world order. This outcome not only reflects the actual circumstances of the summit but also likely contradicts the vision of the BRICS leaders. As the largest BRICS summit ever, Kazan welcomed new members such as Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. BRICS leaders also vowed to transform BRICS into a club for the so-called "Southern Nations," apparently aiming to establish an anti-Western bloc capable of rivaling the G7 and the democratic bloc. However, this is an impossible task. The BRICS independent settlement system came to an end Take the issue of the BRICS independent settlement system, which many Chinese people had been looking forward to and which Putin had raised in a high-profile manner, for example. It ended in nothing at this summit, and only a consensus was formed to strengthen cooperation on the existing central bank settlement methods. Isn't this just beautiful nonsense and the nature of the Kazan Declaration? This is because the BRICS is a superficially united organization, riddled with internal contradictions and conflicts, temporarily united only by varying degrees of consensus on "anti-Americanism." One can easily spot the simultaneous presence of numerous rival countries at the BRICS summit, and these countries are also experiencing tensions in real-world politics. For example, there are Armenia and Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, India and Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and, of course, India and China. Of course, this doesn't prevent the BRICS's very existence from masking these contradictions.
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