I was thinking a lot of "What Ifs..?" regarding BRICS. Of course India is acting like they're the lynchpin of BRICS. They think if they're not involved, nothing goes anywhere. There was a suggestion to exclude China's currency from any BRICS monetary regime. Why? Because the Rupee will replace it? Dream on. What are they going to do? Force all other BRICS countries to use the Rupee in trade so they can make money from it just from it being used like the how the US does it with the dollar?
China is the economic engine of the world not India. Even if there were no BRICS monetary system, the Yuan will still be king because China can manufacture everything. The US and Europe can't even say that. What can they offer? Advanced technology the rest of the world doesn't need nor can afford? All the things a growing country needs China is able to provide. Are they going to buy it from the West which will offer only the most expensive alternatives? Russia has all the resources the US and the West needs. India is not a lynchpin. All they got is the possibility of a potential consumer market not now but in the future and a whole lot of other things have to happen before that happens. And after being the belle of the Western Ball, that quickly turned as reality hit that the West doesn't really look at them as an equal. That was just a show to trick India to side with the West and that's the only present value India gives BRICS where the West doesn't have India 100% in their pocket hence why India is now open to BRICS. Yes India can just be a poison pill for BRICS but China could just abandon BRICS and it will fall apart.
Am I painting China as all important? No. It's just a fact that everyone else wants to be paid more for their goods than the West or India ever will to draw them away from China. If China wanted to, it can force the US and West to have to exchange for the Yuan to buy the Chinese goods they need because again no else is going to be cheaper. Where are all the countries' (that think they're going to be a better alternative than China) shipping fleets to buy all the raw goods in order to make things for others? They have none certainly not enough to match China. They thought it was just about cheap labor. The rich West was going to pay and get all the raw materials and build the infrastructure to make and ship things for the West. That's why China will always be cheaper because the West doesn't have to pay for those things when they outsource to China.
Right now the West sees India as unreliable looking out for their own interests only. Just like the West does in turn. India ain't white. The only way the West can trust India is being what they hate China for not doing. Being a lackey doing everything the West wants them to do. India has already failed their test. India made that video of a future where whites are beggars to richer Indians. If they ever become something, that will haunt them. The West is just playing a race war of attrition.