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Home / Asia / India’s ties with Russia remain steady. But Moscow’s tighter embrace of China makes it wary
Asia, China, Russia

May 3, 2023

India’s ties with Russia remain steady. But Moscow’s tighter embrace of China makes it wary

While America sees “China as the main challenger to U.S. global primacy, it does not see India that way,” said Rajan Menon, director of the grand strategy program at Defense Priorities, a Washington-based think tank.

“To the contrary it views India, nowadays, as a partner to counterbalance China,” he noted.

“That overlapping strategic interest explains why Washington has not reacted to India’s alignment with Moscow in the way it has to the ‘no-limits’ friendship China has forged with Russia,” Menon said.

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