Signal Report states 36 countries have expressed interest in joining BRICS

Summary

The report's institutional evidence for the opening is alliance formation: new groupings such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the India, Israel, Emirates and United States grouping alongside expansion of existing ones, with a stated count of thirty six countries that have said they are interested in joining the BRICS group, and oil holders such as Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Iran named as entrants who would change its behaviour.