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India Wants Both Russia and the US as Allies Against China

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India Wants Both Russia and the US as Allies Against China
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrive to attend a meeting with Russian and Indian officials and businessmen in the Kremlin in Moscow, on Dec. 24, 2015. Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP/Getty Images
Anders Corr
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Russia is an unreliable, autocratic, and pro-China country. Yet India, the world’s biggest democracy, is aligned with the East European country due to a historical relationship and an Indian desire to maintain both Russian and American friends for any potential fight against China.

Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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