As I’ve pointed out before - BRICS remains what it was when it started - an acronym created by Goldman Sachs for selling their international funds.
They have done nothing concrete. And no, India is not going to join China in a digital currency for trade
China and India do not have to be in an alliance system to be in Brics and trade.
The US led or imposed economic order is based on alliances so I this is a new concept. Of course all the talk of NATO member for Korea, Japan, etc., is an example of alliance based economic order.
Brics is a new alternative to the system that’s existed since WWII.
I see your objection to Brics. However, China & *India will become trade partners because it is in their self-interest.
Brics is the future for everyone who is not a US Ally. The west has separated itself from most of the world.
*India can see that after Russia and China the US will come for them... in fact the coup last month was a message from the State Department’s sister agency to Modi after his Russian/Ukraine visits.