Many in the West will be annoyed by the sight of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shaking hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but they should remember the shadow of China’s leader, says this researcher.
Russia n President Vladimir Putin and India n Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Sep 16, 2022. was in Italy attending the outreach session of the G7 summit, reinforcing chummy ties with its partners in the West.
to him skipping the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Astana, scheduled to be held this week. India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will instead be filling in for Modi in a summit overshadowed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. With Modi’s absence, Delhi is telling its Chinese interlocutors that relations are under severe strain. Unless the Chinese roll back their aggressive posture in the Himalayas, the space for engagement between the two Asian neighbours is scarce. The SCO has a distinct security sentiment around it - unlike BRICS, which also includes Russia, China and India, but carriesMedia reports suggest that Modi will visit Russia in the second week of July. This trip will rankle many Western observers.
But this goes to strategy, not cheap oil. To paraphrase Jaishankar, the reason for the time-tested stability in India-Russia ties is to maintain a continental balance in the Eurasian heartland. That is, to balance China. Or to put it another way, don’t go around making new adversaries when there are already two open fronts - China and Pakistan.
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