The Russia-India Romance
We’ve given the recent Bollywood summit between Dmitry Medvedev and Mahoman Singh a bit of coverage, but here MK Bhadrakumar gets more in depth. Despite his baroque, flowery writing style, the author provides a glimpse into the future of BRIC to BRIC relations, or as Putin is fond of describing it, multi-vector diplomacy.
Shorn of diplomatese, New Delhi would nonchalantly accelerate its strategic ties with Washington which, as India understands, is bent on “containing” China, while Sino-Russian ties are deepening and expanding and the two countries increasingly coordinate their stance on regional and international issues, as the latest instance over North Korea amply testifies. New Delhi expects Moscow not to get flustered by the cut and thrust of U.S.-India ties, which by far outstrip Russia’s reset with the U.S. and are of a qualitatively different character.