Putin, Xi, And Pezeshkian Land In New Delhi As BRICS Summit Opens — Modi Walks The Tightrope Between Washington And The World – CDM – Human Reporters • Not Machines
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India is the focal point of the global realignment this weekend as the 18th BRICS Summit commences in New Delhi with participation of top world leaders over two days of high-level diplomatic engagement. Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Delhi on Friday evening on his first visit to India after several years. Chinese President Xi Jinping is here on his first visit to India after seven long years. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who departed for Iran on Friday morning, arrived later in the day. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also arrived Friday morning.
The summit, running September 12-13 under India’s chairship, is expected to focus on enhancing trade in local currencies and integrating BRICS payment systems to reduce dollarization and build an alternative international order to Western-dominated global institutions. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday urged BRICS countries to link their payment systems to promote trade in national currencies — a direct challenge to the dominance of the U.S. dollar in global commerce.
Narendra Modi is expected to hold separate bilateral meetings with Putin and Pezeshkian on September 12, with his encounter with Xi Jinping scheduled for September 13. China’s foreign ministry confirmed the Modi-Xi meeting is being arranged, saying it will be “positive and meaningful” for both sides. The last Modi-Xi meeting was in 2019 in Brasilia, and their relationship was later badly strained by a series of deadly Himalayan border clashes.
This is also the first time Iran’s president will travel abroad as the country’s leader while it is at war with the US and Israel. The participation of Putin, who is currently engaged in peace talks over Ukraine, and Xi, who has propped up both Russia and Iran economically, underlines how BRICS has become a gathering point for nations charting a course outside Western-dominated institutions.
India under Modi is walking a tightrope — bolstering its defense partnership with Washington while simultaneously hosting some of America’s most significant adversaries at a summit explicitly designed to create financial and geopolitical alternatives to U.S. power. How well Modi navigates his bilateral encounters this weekend will indicate in which direction India is headed as the global order continues to fracture.