Xi Jinping will attend the BRICS Summit and visit South Africa on a state visit

President Xi Jinping will attend the fifteenth BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) Summit in South Africa, the Chinese foreign ministry has confirmed.

President Xi Jinping will attend the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the invitation of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying announced on Friday. From August 21 to 24, President Xi Jinping will also make a state visit to South Africa.

President Xi Jinping will co-chair the China-Africa Leaders’ Dialogue while in South Africa, according to Hua Chunying.

This will be Xi’s second foreign tour of 2023 after his trip to Russia in March. In an attempt to improve China’s ties with Africa on a political and economic level, the Chinese president previously made a visit to South Africa in 2018, according to Al Jazeera.
For the BRICS conference, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also visit South Africa.
The BRICS—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—will meet in Johannesburg the following week to discuss how to make the group of nations—which together represent a quarter of the global economy—into a geopolitical force that might threaten the dominance of the developed world, according to the report.

Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, will take part in the meeting via video conference despite being criticized for his country’s invasion of Ukraine.

The 69 countries invited to the summit in South Africa include all of the African governments, and it is anticipated that the BRICS group’s growth would take precedence. Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Ethiopia, and other countries have all indicated interest in officially or informally joining the organization.

China has made the statement that it “welcomes more like-minded partners to join the ‘BRICS family’ at an early date” in an attempt to strengthen its geopolitical position despite its ongoing confrontation with the United States.

According to Al Jazeera, Brazil has resisted growth out of worry that it would lessen the group’s significance, while Russia is in favor of it.

BRIC is an abbreviation that was first introduced in 2001 by a Goldman Sachs analyst to describe the growth of Brazil, Russia, India, and China.

In 2009, these nations had their first physical meeting in Russia, and when South Africa joined the following year, they chose the moniker BRICS.

Over 40% of the world’s population and over 26% of the global GDP are made up of BRICS countries.