BRICS expands to 56% of world population, 44% of global GDP: Vietnam joins as partner country

More like 35%

nbd

I don’t know, but this Wikipedia table has population and GDP-PPP columns, so it’s easy to do the math. Note though, that Vietnam is in the subsequent table, because the page hasn’t been updated it yet.

“That thing that’s already over a decade old and already much larger than the G7 in terms of population, landmass, natural resources, and industrial production… Never going to happen.”

India Russia and China hate each other to the bone.

India and Russia have had goid relations for over half a century. Polls in India usually show Russia as the most liked foreign nation. China and Russia also have had good relations for at least the last decade or so.

India-China relations are complicated. There is a border conflict, but China is our biggest trading partner, and we need China's UnionPay if we ever want to decouple from Swift.

Your impression of India’s, China’s, and Russia’s relationships with each other is years behind.

Russia and India are friends since USA decided to “invade” India

As a person living next to Russia, I tend to follow it's situation. I know that the exports from Russia to India has been declining for years, following India moving (not all yet) production of weaponry home. Only oil remains strong.

Also India - I think - seems to be projecting more and more "Western" image. Not sure why. Maybe my perception is skewed here, because the CEOs of biggest corporations sound more and more indian every year. Maybe it's Modi skipping Shanghai Cooperation Agreement summit - and generally avoiding public places where Putin is - since Russian invasion of Ukraine.

So while Russia and India will remain trade partners and probable allies, I think they are currently trying to figure out how to increase their trade ties (and India might be wanting to be hush hush about it for Western publicity). There might be other challenges there - if I remember correctly, the current trade flow is that India buys significantly more from Russia than it sells there, so they might want to increase their exports - but this is totally my opinion.

I know there were plans for more ports and trade corridors before the Ukraine invasion, but I don't know their status now.

India Russia hate each other to the bone

I don't think so. Russia supported India during Cold War, didn't it? It also stood with India during India-Pakistani War. That counts for a lot, especially with older folks - and politicians tend to be older folks.