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The US has sought to improve its relationship with countries in Asia to counter China s rising influence.
India has been a major target of that effort, but New Delhi s purchase of major Russian weapons may complicate the US s engagement.
US efforts to build closer ties with India face a test later this year, when New Delhi is set to receive the S-400, a Russian-made air-defense system that the US has already sanctioned other countries for buying.
India will get its first S-400 set by the end of 2021, India s ambassador to Russia said at the end of April, according to Russian state media. New Delhi announced its intention to buy the S-400 in 2015 and signed a contract worth more than $5 billion for five regiment-size sets in 2018.
Foreword
This joint report on Afghanistan – led by scholars from the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Wilson Centre (WC), and Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations – is a crystallisation of some of the efforts of the three organisations engaged in an India-Russia-U.S. trilateral Track II dialogue for the past couple of years.
The aim of these deliberations is to foster a frank exchange of ideas on areas of mutual interest, identifying possible convergence, as well as divergence, on global and regional issues. The focus is on developing a more nuanced understanding of each other’s concerns to narrow down differences where possible, and to promote avenues for joint cooperation. The trilateral meetings have coincided with an increasingly turbulent period in world affairs, where bilateral relations between the three powers are evolving. At the same time, as major powers in their own right, the three countries continue to deal with the impacts of the e
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Once the staunchest of friends, India and Russia hope to shore up fraying traditional ties at a time of a fluid and changing strategic environment. Whether the two Cold War allies will be able to resist global headwinds pitting them on opposite sides of the international divide is not clear. But neither Russia nor India wants to jeopardise a relationship that had yielded rich dividends in the past.
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The Biden administration s plans to kick-start the Afghan peace process and carry on from where Donald Trump left off has brought India into the picture. India will now be part of the regional forum on Afghanistan when the UN convenes the meeting. The US had long talked of roping in regional powers to play a role, considering that an Afghanistan wracked by civil war has had a negative fall-out in the neighbourhood. Instability does not just help terror groups like ISIS to thrive but impacts the overall economic prospects. Neighbours like Pakistan, Russia, China, India, and Iran all have stakes at