Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is incorrect to recommend that the US and other western nations are instigating India into playing anti-China games in the Indo-Pacific, Quad, and so forth. Addressing a state-run assume tank by means of video-hyperlink, Lavrov accused the West of attempting to sideline Russia and China and to build a unipolar planet, with America as the sole planet energy. “However, India is currently an object of the Western countries’ persistent, aggressive and devious policy as they are trying to engage it in anti-China games by promoting Indo-Pacific strategies, the so-called ‘Quad’ while at the same time the West is attempting to undermine our close partnership and privileged relations with India”, he told the assume tank.
The Russian foreign minister is incorrect on two counts right here. One, India is not becoming lured into partnering the West in the Indo-Pacific and the Quad it is undertaking so with its eyes wide open and, we dare say, its gaze fixed at an increasingly belligerent China. Two, if Russia values its friendship with India, its failure to use its increasing ties with China to persuade the latter from occupying Indian territory in eastern Ladakh reveals its personal opportunistic foreign policy.
As a sovereign nation, India is suitable to cooperate and companion other nations which respect international laws and conventions. A China which willfully disregards international laws, norms and conventions wants will have to be isolated. Lavrov should really address himself to his new pals in Beijing to know why India is acquiring closer to the US.