The Bigger Picture: India’s foreign policy with Tanvi Madan
ASPI Podcast: Policy, Guns & Money
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The India-Russian Relationship Is Really Important
In an ideal world, india's diversified portfolio of partners to balance china would include russia. In 19 71, when india signed a treaty with the soviet union, it was parked in part as an insurance policy against an attack from china. When sino russian or sino soviet relations were close, that didn't benefit inda. For instance, during the 19 62 china india war, russia took ally china's side rather than friend india's. So for india, which fewiched even to day, russia, it would like russia to be, it seize russia as part of its balancing ch
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