China Says BRICS Not Building Anti-Western Coalition

The addition of six countries to the BRICS group is to facilitate broader cooperation, not to build an anti-Western coalition or fuel confrontation, a Chinese foreign ministry official said while briefing the press in South Africa about the expansion of the emerging markets bloc.

That’s in line with the group’s goal of uniting the Global South and carrying out mutually beneficial cooperation among developing countries around the world, said Li Kexin, director-general of the Department of International Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at a briefing in Johannesburg on Thursday.