Do you think that this could be one the major alliances over the next 100-300 years that can properly rival the western world? (BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)
Why shouldn't they? NATO, the EU, and G7 bully them with the combined power of their alliance, so coalitions like BRICS and ASEAN are the logical response to even the playing field. I do think these alliances will be proper rivals the Western ones in the future, most likely a much nearer future than most people in the West think given the world's political trajectory (they might even merge into one big alliance or the two alliances themselves will form a higher order alliance).
I see it as part of the last breaths of the industrial age and while in a static world without AI it would become a serious powerhouse,that is not the world we are going into. No centralized power is safe from AI as their reign is coming to a conclusion. We will laugh in the future that we even had boarders and counties back in the olden days. This video has me smiling as it is so darn funny as it sure feels like it is where we are going. https://youtu.be/gAeBIc3iQTI