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BRICS increasingly looks like China plus vassal states, while Indonesia shows what nonalignment can mean in reality, as opposed to being just another hanger-on – like South Africa, writes Phillip de Wet.
BRICS, once a group of five vaguely like-minded states, has expanded into something else.
That means it needs a new name, one that reflects its new nature and trajectory, while still allowing us to write terrible punny headlines because literally millions of "another BRICS in the wall" jokes can't all be wrong.
