... any of the alliances it has entered after WW2 (such as NATO or AUKUS). India is clearly not ready and will not be ready anytime ... ... Indian foreign policy is a commitment to carefully balancing its ‘Indo-Pacific’ aspirations and its ‘Eurasian’ priorities. ... ... traditional friendships in Eurasia and exploring new opportunities with Russia or Iran. Evidently, India will not wish to stand together ... ... to New Delhi in the event of another escalation of the India–China border conflict.
An even less likely scenario is that the ...
... India–U.S. cooperation. In this vein, drawing direct parallels between India–U.S. and Russia–China relations seems rather improper: the latter partnership is free of the limitations... ... limitations.
India is reluctant to act as America’s junior partner
Andrey Gubin:
The Indo-Pacific Conundrum: Why U.S. Plans Are Destined to Fail
First of all, the U.S. has... ... is rather hard to imagine the Quad to be at some point remolded into a full-fledged AUKUS-like alliance, where the two other members do not challenge Washington’s senior...
..., or even cross the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, creating a new potential threat for Russia’s Northern Fleet. There is every reason to suppose, however, that their main routes will lie much further south, and will not directly impinge upon Russian interests.
Zhao Huasheng:
Assessing the Trend of the Indo-Pacific Strategy
It is noteworthy that at around the same time as the establishment of AUKUS, China submitted an application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP was actually conceived as part of the strategy for China’s economic containment under former U.S. president Barack Obama,...
