Russia’s Energy Industry Is Betting Big on South Asia

Russia’s Energy Industry Is Betting Big on South Asia

China will always remain one of Russia’s top energy partners for economic, geographic, and political reasons, but Moscow doesn’t want to become dependent on exports to the People’s Republic, which is why it’s preemptively diversifying by betting big on South Asia in general and on India in particular. Several interconnected developments this month prove that…

China’s First-Ever Trilateral Anti-Terrorist Talks With Iran & Pakistan Likely Concern W-CPEC+

China’s First-Ever Trilateral Anti-Terrorist Talks With Iran & Pakistan Likely Concern W-CPEC+

India should begin deliberating what it’ll do in the event that some Chinese-Iranian trade is conducted across Pakistani-controlled Kashmir since it appears as though this is the long-term outcome that Beijing wanted to advance through the trilateral anti-terrorist talks that it just hosted with Iran and Pakistan. The first-ever trilateral anti-terrorist talks between China, Iran,…

Russia, China Take Holistic View of the Pamirs and Hindu Kush

Russia, China Take Holistic View of the Pamirs and Hindu Kush

The Xi’an Declaration, issued after the First China-Central Asia Summit at Xi’an on May 18-19, takes a direct hit at the West’s interference in the region, scattering the notion in Washington and Brussels that Russia and China’s dominance on the Central Asian steppe is not sustainable as Russia is “overstretched” in the Ukraine conflict.  As…