The director of the BRICS Policy Center, Marta Fernández, gave an interview to the BBC and highlighted how the growing global polarization impacts the perception of the BRICS as an anti-Western bloc. With the 16th BRICS Summit taking place in Kazan, the report sought to raise some points about the “anti-Western” view attributed to the bloc.

“International politics is increasingly polarized and there is pressure on the system to adhere to one side or the other. In this sense, any alternative arrangement to the traditional one is, in a way, allocated to this anti-Western spectrum,” Fernández explained.