Media outlets like The Wire, Al Jazeera, and BBC soften the image of Gurpatwant Singh Pannun by labelling him a "Sikh activist," despite his designation as a terrorist by India.

With countries like India and China resolving their disputes without leaving any scope for the West to interfere and India asserting its strategic autonomy to bolster ties with West’s bête noire Russia, the US will certainly closely monitor the BRICS Summit even as it may claim not to see the grouping as “geopolitical rivals”.