Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will attend the BRICS summit in India on Sept. 12-13, according to both outlets. He is attending as this year’s chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and plans to use the trip to promote closer engagement between ASEAN and BRICS.
Bloomberg reports that Marcos is expected to push for stronger links between the two groupings as part of his ASEAN chairmanship. Free Malaysia Today adds detail on the schedule, saying he is set to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and business executives during the visit. The sources frame the trip as combining diplomatic outreach with discussions that could include economic and commercial cooperation, though they describe differing levels of detail on specific meetings and outcomes.
