BRICS leaders meet in Delhi as Trump threatens tariffs on currency alternatives

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a BRICS summit in New Delhi in mid-September 2026. Leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attended. The United States is not a BRICS member, but Donald Trump still shaped the meeting's agenda. In 2024, Trump threatened 100 percent tariffs on BRICS countries if they tried to replace the US dollar. Members disagreed on how strongly to push back against US pressure, so the group was unlikely to release a statement criticising Washington. Xi's visit was his first to India in seven years. He and Modi met to repair relations after a deadly border clash in 2020. Modi also met Putin to talk about the war in Ukraine.