... conflict in the short term. US resources are expended and diverted from containing China. If Washington becomes bogged down in the Iranian campaign, Beijing’s gains will increase. For Iran itself, China stands to become an even more important partner.
India
India is not critically affected by the crisis either, although it suffers economic losses from higher oil prices. A large number of Indians work in the Gulf countries. New Delhi will likely be able to maintain a stable position no matter how the ...
... caution, which limits transparency and predictability, both of which are essential for deeper forms of economic integration. At the same time, security cooperation remains the only domain in which all major powers within the SCO such as China, Russia, and India can engage without compromising their strategic autonomy or national interests. For Russia in particular, this architecture is especially valuable. In a period of shifting regional alignments, the SCO provides Moscow with a reliable multilateral ...
... “refueling stop” and a depot for long-range missions. In Elon Musk’s plans for Mars, large-scale flight operations are possible only with refueling and fuel production beyond Earth.
Andrey Kortunov:
Space development: Star Wars or Star Trek?
China and India are also actively participating in this race. As a key step in preparing for a future crewed landing at the Moon’s South Pole, China plans to launch the Chang’e-7
mission
in 2026. The mission is designed to search for and study water ice in ...
... balancing US trade and eliminating the trade deficit. However, tariffs have also begun to be actively used for political purposes, utilized as economic sanctions. Moreover, the targets are not so much US adversaries as allies and partners—pressure on India to abandon Russian oil is one example.
Sanctions against allies are hardly a new phenomenon. The US has been actively utilizing both restrictive measures and the threat of using them. Washington resorted to this threat, for example, during the Suez ...
Russia and India will likely have to exercise strategic patience again—a quality they both possess in abundance
Self-sufficiency in Russian-Indian relations has become commonplace over the nearly eighty years of their history. Both countries are major players ...
No clear-cut global order is in sight in the near term, but India-Russia ties are suited for any kind of world order that eventually develops
As the India–Russia Strategic Partnership marks its 25
th
year, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited India for the 23
rd
Annual Summit—his 10
th
visit to New ...
In South Asia’s naval realm, new U.S.-India framework risks disturbing that balance by having advanced technology flows and blue water operational dependencies
The announcement on October 31, 2025, of a new ten-year
Defense Framework
between the United States and India at Kuala Lumpur ...
... concept in Russia’s foreign policy. It was first outlined in the Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly in February 2024. [
1
] Later that year, it was included in the agenda of the Russian President’s summits with the leaders of China and India, discussed by CIS foreign ministers, and further developed within the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Russian diplomacy consistently incorporates the theme of a Eurasian security system into the dialogue with its partners in various parts of ...
Central Asia presents a key opportunity for India and Russia to deepen their collaboration, particularly in energy, security, and transportation, with the region serving as a critical nexus for expanding regional connectivity and enhancing economic and logistical ties between the two countries
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... throughout most of continental Eurasia is the high degree of autonomy that states located there have in making foreign policy decisions. This does not mean that competition or even armed conflict between them is impossible – the relationship between India and Pakistan is an example. However, given that most Eurasian countries base their foreign policies on their own considerations, rather than seeing them in the context of those of other major players, it suggests that such competition can be reliably ...
