Like Russia, India is likely to resist the evolution of the international system ... ... advanced forms of industrial cooperation.
Geopolitically, the Indo-Pacific partnership will go ahead. India has already developed ... ... ties to NATO through some customized “NATO+” format and to AUKUS, especially if the tensions in India-China relations get ... ... the central place in the emergent mega-region is assigned to the ASEAN nations rather than the U.S.
Obviously, India will not give ...
... unpleasant hiccup
last year, Moscow and New Delhi seem to have brought under control their differing views on the issue, which does not mean, though, that they are on the same page.
At the press-conference, Sergey Lavrov
spoke of
“identical positions with Indian colleagues” and promised to “do everything […] to prevent the plans of Indo-Pacific strategies, AUKUS and other closed (bloc) formats from trying to prevail over ASEAN and ASEAN-centric structures”. India wholeheartedly supports ASEAN-centrality as well. So do the United States and other nations that have come up with their own Indo-Pacific visions. Yet, New Delhi has resorted to a nuanced stance vis-à-vis ...