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BRICS: Can China and India overcome differences at summit?

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping. [Reuters]

As the BRICS grouping discusses its future at a three-day summit in Johannesburg this week, much depends on how well the two BRICS economic powerhouses, India and China, can get along.

BRICS - comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - is seen by many analysts as attempting to forge an alternative global order, especially with regard to the Global South.

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