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The China Factor in Modi’s Mission to Moscow


Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on 9 July 2024. Image: Prime Minister's Office / Wikimedia Commons / GODL-India


The alliance of convenience between Russia and China threatens not only to accelerate an increasingly overstretched US’s relative decline, but also to erode Indian security. India now must take advantage of its relationship with Russia to mediate an end to the Ukraine war and drive a wedge between Russia and China.

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Brahma Chellaney

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