Senator Aquilino Pimentel III, the Senate minority leader and former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, last week, offered a “viable alternative” to the current Western-controlled global order. He said that.
“Let the Philippines apply to participate in BRICS,” Pimentel said in a Senate speech, arguing that membership will help embrace balanced foreign policy. “Marching into a multipolar world is inevitable, because it is in itself consistent with humanity. We should support the idea of a multipolar world.”
Starting in Brazil, Russia, India and China, BRICS has since expanded to include South Africa, Egypt, Iran and more recently Indonesia, making the proposal more urgent in the view of the senators. He imagined the Philippines as “friends of all countries” and said he saw the possibility as “a neutral place of consultation, particularly with conflict settlement.”
