{"id":267151,"date":"2025-07-23T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=267151"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:09:09","slug":"gupta-authors-op-ed-on-india-and-brics-for-the-indian-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2025\/07\/23\/gupta-authors-op-ed-on-india-and-brics-for-the-indian-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Gupta Authors Op-Ed on India and BRICS for The Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_266872\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/sgupta-300x300-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-266872\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-266872\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/sgupta-300x300-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Surupta Gupta\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/sgupta-300x300-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/sgupta-300x300-1-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/sgupta-300x300-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/sgupta-300x300-1-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/sgupta-300x300-1-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/sgupta-300x300-1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-266872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Surupta Gupta<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Surupa Gupta published an op-ed in The Indian Express, a major Indian English-language daily. The column, titled &#8220;BRICS is China&#8217;s playground&#8221; was published in July and questions whether membership in the BRICS group furthers India&#8217;s foreign policy goals. Gupta discusses that given China&#8217;s dominant role in the BRICS group, as well as its deep pockets, trade and investment ties with other BRICS member states, it is likely that India&#8217;s voice and interests get drowned out. <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/best-of-both-sides-brics-is-chinas-playground-\/10119106\">Read the op-ed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Surupa Gupta published an op-ed in The Indian Express, a major Indian English-language daily. The column, titled &#8220;BRICS is China&#8217;s playground&#8221; was published in July and questions whether membership in the BRICS group furthers India&#8217;s foreign policy goals. Gupta discusses that given China&#8217;s dominant role in the BRICS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28559,"featured_media":267152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[815],"class_list":{"0":"post-267151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-professional-notes","8":"tag-sgupta","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}