Both Chinese and Indian media are reporting this as well. Whether Macron gets permission to go to BRICS is certainly a question, however that he requested this is not.

[–] LastThreeOfItsKind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Western media would jump all over Macron for doing this and likely cause dissension in Brussels.

If Macron did this, then Paris’s leadership role of the EU would be in question and Berlin would challenge Macron and oust the French-domaniance that has occurred since Merkel left.

From the Russian perspective it’d be great if western outlets carried this story and there is no way that DW and Speigel wouldn’t carry it

All in all, it is silly angle to drive a disinformation campaign and at best bnn.network has jumped the gun allowing for a counter-narrative to form.