Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.
This is The Point.
The 17th BRICS summit is scheduled to kick off on Sunday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
China has announced that Chinese Premier Li Qiang is attending the summit and China supports Brazil,
the rotating BRICS chair, to make the summit a full success.
This is the first summit after Indonesia joined as the 11th member in January and Vietnam joined the cooperation mechanism as the 10th partner nation in June.
So how committed?
Is China to the Mechanism?
How significant is this year's summit and what does the group's growing attraction mean for the long underrepresented global south and the world at large?
Welcome to this edition of The Point, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing.
I'm Li Xin.
I'm pleased to be joined from Beijing by Thomas Law,
president of the Brazil-China Sociocultural Institute,
from the Indonesian capital Jakarta, Mohamed Habib Abiyan Jagwan, researcher.
at the Department of International Relations at the Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Indonesia.
From Shanghai, Niu Haibing,
Director of the Institute for Foreign Policy Studies at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies.
And from Moscow, Anton Fedyashin,
Associate Professor in the History Department at American University.