Emerging economies are playing the field by siding with the United States and its allies one day, and Russia and China the other, says a professor of international affairs. The expanded BRICS, which was formed to act as a counterweight to the West, is the “beginning of a different kind of international order”, an expert said on Friday (Oct 25) as the grouping’s three-day summit in Russia came to a close. The bloc - which originally comprised Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - added