The New Delhi summit photo told the real story: BRICS has roughly doubled in size. Here's how big the bloc actually is now, in members and in weight, and what that adds up to.
Behind the BRICS summit's talk of 'trade settlement' is BRICS Pay, a plan to move money without SWIFT or the dollar. Here's what's actually built, and what's still a slide deck.
The 18th BRICS summit wrapped in New Delhi with a 140-point declaration. Here's what it actually agreed on trade and currency, minus the 'new BRICS currency' hype.