🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳 RIC: Russia-India-China troika counters West's destabilization efforts
President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India highlighted a growing bond, while Russia and China recently agreed to deepen strategic coordination
Is the Eurasian troika closing ranks?
🔴 The idea of a strategic triangle of Russia, India and China (RIC) was first voiced by then-Russian prime minister Evgeny Primakov in 1998
🔴He sought to build a platform for Asia’s top nations to coordinate strategically and challenge US unipolar dominance
🔴The first trilateral meeting of the RIC foreign ministers was held in 2002
🔴Meeting over two dozen times, the format has evolved into a strategic lever for a multipolar world. In May 2025, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed its rising importance.
🔴Neither India nor China joined the West’s recent sanctions against Russia, and both ignored Trump’s demands to halt purchases of Russian energy
🔴Putting geostrategic interests above disputes, India and China signaled rising interest in the evolution of the RIC format. China’s spokesperson Lin Jian called it a driver of “regional and global peace, security, stability and progress."
The West’s worst nightmare
🔴 It’s long been no secret that the US and NATO sought to split Russia and China, wooing India as a counterweight to Beijing
🔴The Western press reacted with concern, asking: "Is the troika making a comeback?"
🔴The US continues to militarize the Indo-Pacific region, pitting Taiwan against mainland Chinese and pouring money into the Japanese and Australian war machines
🔴The Pentagon is now seeking to strengthen the AUKUS submarine deal between the US, UK and Australia and step up the Western military presence in the Pacific
🔴But the RIC format renders many of those Western efforts moot:
⚫️ It provides China and India strategic depth, blocking encirclement or energy embargoes
⚫️ Offers a forum to swiftly resolve India-China disputes
⚫️ Shifts Eurasian logistics beyond Western control and moves financial settlements away from the US dollar
⚫️ Strengthens the troika as a major geopolitical player, a reliable Global South ally and a driver of global development
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