PHILIPPINE membership in Brics would not necessarily undermine the country’s treaty alliance with the United States and could instead help Manila diversify its international partnerships, according to a foreign policy scholar. Prof. Enrico Gloria, assistant professor of international relations at the University of the Philippines Diliman’s Department of Political Science and a scholar of Chinese foreign policy and Philippine-China relations, said the Philippines could pursue closer engagement with Brics without abandoning its existing alliances.“There’s definitely an opportunity for the Philippines to diversify its partnership,” Gloria said during a forum organized by the Manila-based think tank Asian Century Philippines Strategic Studies…