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  Christian E. Rieck of the Global Governance Institute writes in October 2024 that China's relative power distribution in BRICS is "4+1". He notes how China has pushed for enlargement, while India and Brazil have wanted to maintain the group’s exclusive relationship with China as well as its non-western stance. According to Rieck, although BRICS supports multipolarity and non-alignment, it also does not take an explicitly anti-western stance. He also argues that BRICS' efforts to construct new financial architectures should not be actively challenged, as that will only be counter-productive, and that Europe should not feel threatened by BRICS.
  
  Alicia García-Herrero, who writes for the think tank Bruegel, argued that the West should note the anti-West sentiment developing amongst BRICS, and that the West needs to offer the Global South better economic deals.
  
  Reinhold Brender of the Egmont Institute wrote in November of 2024 that the pivot toward BRICS by a number of countries in the Global South, especially visible during the Kazan summit, should be a "wake-up call" for the EU. To address this, Brender argued that the EU should think beyond BRICS in relation to the Global South.