Xi Jinping Leaves Beijing for New Delhi to Attend 18th BRICS Leaders’ Meeting

The presence of Cai Qi, a Standing Committee member and the party's General Office director, alongside the foreign minister signals that this BRICS outing is being treated as a core leadership-level engagement rather than routine diplomacy. For crypto and RWA markets, the significance lies less in the summit itself than in whether BRICS continues to push cross-border settlement and digital-infrastructure cooperation that could shape non-dollar rails. Whether that agenda advances beyond declaratory language is the open question worth watching.