Do you think that this could be one the major alliances over the next 100-300 years that can properly rival the western world? (BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)
I definitely think that BRICS will be the alliance to watch going forward. BRICS controls large swaths of commodities and manufacturing. For example, China alone has a bigger manufacturing base than US and EU combined. The BRICS has already overtaken the G7 in global GDP, and working on a reserve currency backed by a basket of currencies.
Just read this the other day: China and the Alliance Allergy of Rising Powers. Might be relevant to this discussion.
Hoping that Mexico joins it.
Why shouldn’t they? NATO, the EU, and G7 bully them with the combined power of their alliance, so coalitions like BRICS and ASEAN are the logical response to even the playing field. I do think these alliances will be proper rivals the Western ones in the future, most likely a much nearer future than most people in the West think given the world’s political trajectory (they might even merge into one big alliance or the two alliances themselves will form a higher order alliance).