Malaysia bandwagoning with BRICS

Malaysia’s desire to join BRICS is not a recent development. BRICS — an intergovernmental economic organisation comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia — has as attempted to pose as a non-Western, Global South economic alternative to the Group of Seven. Malaysia is eager to join as it shifts its international economic approach from hedging to bandwagoning by aligning itself with the non-Western economic grouping