Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in South Africa for the 15th BRICS summit, running from August 22-24, where he was greeted in Johannesburg by President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is hosting the summit in the executive capital of Pretoria.
Putin will be absent for the BRICS meeting after South Africa signaled it was being pressured to enforce the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court which would require the government to arrest the Russian leader.
Over 60 heads of state are expected in South Africa, with Foreign Minister Lavrov representing Russia in place of Putin, among other leading countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa.
According to the FT, "China will push the Brics bloc of emerging markets to become a full-scale rival to the G7 this week, as leaders from across the developing world gather to debate the forum's biggest expansion in more than a decade."
There's reportedly fierce disagreement over whether to continue pursuing non-alignment for the economic interests of developing countries or to transform BRICS into a rival to the West.
Naledi Pandor, South Africa's foreign minister, said this month it was "Extremely wrong" to see a potential Brics expansion as an anti-western move.
Shortly after Russian Foreign Minister's arrival at the airport tarmac in Johannesburg.... Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in South Africa, where he will take part in the BRICS summit pic.
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