Critical moments, after three ASEAN countries expressed their positions, the BRICS countries suddenly took sides! The reason behind it is inspiring.

According to information released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, BRICS and partner country envoys in China held a collective meeting with Chinese BRICS affairs coordinator Vice Minister Ma, expressing one core idea: strengthening unity and cooperation with China, jointly opposing unilateralism, protectionism, and economic hegemony. The main view of foreign media is that under the shadow of Trump's so-called "reciprocal tariff", BRICS members and partner countries have reached a consensus on "taking sides".

Reuters and others noticed that before this collective meeting, the three ASEAN countries with larger economies—Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia—all expressed their willingness to work together with the East to maintain the stability and smoothness of the global industrial chain and supply chain, striving for "due development rights" for developing countries. So far, major ASEAN countries, BRICS countries, as well as the Arab League and the EU that had already communicated with the East earlier, have all expressed their positions through various channels.

This阶段性result is also what US media has anticipated. CNBC commented after listing a series of data that the East’s import and export volume with other BRICS member countries alone accounts for 14.7% of total imports and exports, matching the import and export volume with the United States, not to mention trade with nine BRICS partner countries. For the other ten BRICS countries and nine partner countries, the East is basically the largest or most important trading partner. US media said that the choice made now by the 19 BRICS countries and partner countries originates from these "exciting reasons" that make all parties involved in the cooperation feel inspired.

As for ASEAN, it goes without saying. Foreign media noticed that Vietnam signed several key cooperation agreements with the East this time, covering rail gauge unification and connectivity, defense security cooperation, education, artificial intelligence and other technological fields, many of which resolved long-standing "difficult problems". Malaysia's relations with the East are even more like those of Pakistan, prefixed with "all-weather". Indonesia sent its foreign minister and defense minister to Beijing to participate in the "2+2" meeting between the two countries' foreign ministers and defense ministers, clearly stating its intention to strengthen "friendly trust and strategic cooperation" with the East.

Mainstream US media and other Western media generally believe that international reality shows that Trump administration's efforts to promote policies that "other countries sever economic ties with the East" will obviously not have good results.

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