Russia’s new strategic diplomatic direction focuses on China and India. The Indian Foreign Minister immediately visited Russia, but it was poured cold water by the Russian media.
According to Sputnik news agency & radio’s report on July 5th, the Indian side recently announced that,Foreign Minister Su Jiesheng will pay a visit to Russia from July 8 to 9, and plans to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Russian Deputy Prime Minister borisov.The Indian side declared that the purpose of this visit is to "consolidate bilateral cooperation" and "strengthen India-Russia strategic partnership", and the two sides will exchange views on regional and international issues. Shortly before New Delhi announced its plan to visit Russia,Russian President Vladimir Putin has just signed Presidential Decree No.400, promulgating the "New National Security Strategy", clearly stating that Moscow will devote itself to developing relations with China and India..
Obviously, Putin’s new national security strategy explicitly mentioned India, which made New Delhi excited. Therefore, shortly after the promulgation of the new Russian strategy, India immediately picked up its thigh and sent foreign minister Su Jiesheng to visit Russia, while the iron was hot, to close the relationship between the two countries. It should be pointed out that the reason why India embraces polar bears so actively is mainly due to three considerations.
First of all, no matter what the outside world thinks, India thinks highly of itself and holds an important position in the world. It is a world power, but if it wants to show India on the world stage, it will inevitably need to deal with Russia. Secondly, Russia is a very important source of weapons and equipment for India. It is undeniable that with the improvement of US-India relations, arms sales between India and the West are getting closer and closer.
But at this stage, Russia is India’s least expensive and most reliable source of armaments. The United States attaches too many conditions to the sale of weapons and equipment to India, and the price of arms exported from Europe is also very high. The unit price of gust fighters is as high as more than 200 million US dollars. Therefore, India’s dependence on Russia’s armaments is very serious, so New Delhi has always been very active in bringing Russia-India relations closer.
Finally, India is worried that China and Russia or Russia and Pakistan are too close. India knows that Russia is one of the best military powers in the world, and often changes the regional situation through weapons and equipment. For example, in order to stabilize the presidency of Venezuelan President Maduro, Putin sent a Tu -95 strategic bomber to fly to Venezuela and stayed there for several months. The United States was afraid to launch an attack on Venezuela for fear of "accidentally injuring" the Russian army.
Therefore, India is also worried that Russia will be too close to China or Pakistan and will be biased towards China and Pakistan on the border issue between China and India or India and Pakistan. Therefore, the foreign minister’s visit to Russia is "competing for favor". However, it should be pointed out that India may regard Russia as its most important partner, and its importance is even higher than that of the United States, but Moscow actually does not attach so much importance to India.
For Putin, giving priority to developing relations with China is the key to Russia’s future destiny. As for India, mainly because of the arms sales relationship between Russia and India, India is "stupid and has more money" to facilitate its own "bonus hunter". For Putin’s approval of the new national defense strategy, the Russian media analysis is very in place. In a word, China and Russia should be brothers forever. The new strategy also mentions China and India, but the Russian media has already reflected the position of China and India in Russia’s heart. It can be said that it has poured cold water on Modi’s government.
Of course, as far as Russia is concerned, it naturally does not want such a good buyer to be pried away by the United States or Europe, and India is crucial to stabilizing the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, so it is included in the new national security strategy. The inequality between Russia and India is doomed. In the field of arms sales, India must be in a very weak position. Therefore, although it has been knocked on the bamboo pole again and again, the Russian asking price is higher every time, and New Delhi has to bear it silently. Russia enjoys the feeling of monopoly, so it is no wonder that India was named in the national security strategy, and India really went to "visit".
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