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The crucial BRICS summit matters to the US

By Erin Dunne
Published July 25, 2018 9:39pm ET
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The crucial BRICS summit matters to the US
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his speech at the opening of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg Wednesday, July 25 2017. The summit runs through Friday with various heads of BRICS attending. | (Themba Hadebe/AP)

From July 25 to 27, the 10th annual BRICS summit convenes in Johannesburg, South Africa. BRICS, the association of the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, offers competing institutions, multilateral agreements and economic partnerships to those dominated by United States and the west.

Here’s three things the U.S. should watch out for:

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