The world is in for a “very rocky period in global economic relations” with the incoming Trump presidency and the BRICS can serve as a hedge against that, says an analyst. SINGAPORE: Amid geopolitical tensions in an increasingly fractured world, some Southeast Asian nations are more keen than others in the region to join the BRICS grouping of emerging economies. But even among those - namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam - that have recently become partner countries of BRICS, not