BRICS is about more choices, not choosing a new side against the West - Global Times
The message from the 18th BRICS Summit reinforces the distinction that reform is not replacement, choice is not confrontation, and strategic autonomy is not hostility. Labeling BRICS simply as anti-Western misunderstands one of its central attractions. Many of its members are not searching for a new bloc to join; instead, they are seeking greater freedom from the expectation that they must belong exclusively to any bloc at all.