Brazil-India trade and defense production ties were top on agenda of the Oct. 15-17 visit of Brazilian Vice President Geraldo Alckmin to New Delhi. “The aim of the visit was to advance dialogue and cooperation with India in trade, defense, energy, mining, health, digital inclusion and aerospace, among other sectors, and to begin preparations for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s visit to India in February 2026,” Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Relations, Itamaraty, reported.
Both nations fiercely defend their right to “strategic autonomy,” and view the BRICS as a means to secure that, even more so as the United States is directing economic warfare against other countries right and left, but the BRICS nations in particular.
“India was singled out for 50% tariffs along with Brazil. If ever there was a moment for the two to come together, it is now. Geographically separated, but much aligned geopolitically and now economically, the two countries have begun to find proximity of national interest,” Indian Major General Pawan Anand wrote in India’s The Week magazine on Oct. 19. General Anand, a decorated retired Army official, is currently Director of the Centre for Emerging Technology for Atma Nirvhar Bharat at India’s United Services Institution, and had recently been in Brazil, where he participated in an Oct. 8 hearing in the Brazilian Congress on technological sovereignty and cooperation between BRICS members.
