2026-09-10
26 分钟Discussion keeps the world turning.
This is Round Table.
In India this week, a room full of leaders will sit down under a banner
that started as a shorthand for five emerging economies:
Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
Well, that was the original list, but it isn't anymore.
The guest list has grown, and so has the ambition.
Trade, tech, climate, jobs, all of it folded into one agenda.
But step back from the summit photos for a moment, and there's a simpler question sitting underneath all of it.
Does any of this reach the rest of us?
Fefe puts that question to Li Lun, an assistant professor at Peking University who studies the digital economy.
What started as an economic acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa
has grown into a much broader platform, bringing together more countries
and, increasingly, economies, businesses, and people from across the Global South.
But what does that actually mean for you or for me?
How can a mechanism like BRICS affect our daily lives, from the economy and jobs to technology and climate change?
And perhaps more importantly, what are young people most worried about today,
and can BRICS offer any real solutions to those worries?
That's what we're exploring today.
Or should I say, that's what Fefe is exploring today,