BRICS: Another in the wall.

Also: Russia, the US, Canada, Panama, Japan and the UAE.

Beata Umiltà Transports Bricks to the Monastery, Pietro Lorenzetti, 1341, panel, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

BRICS. Another in the wall.

A summit that’s more brickwork than breakthrough.

The BRICS Summit opened in Johannesburg on Tuesday with 1,200 delegates attending. Brazil’s president said the five-country group was not a counterpoint to the US, ad…