India-Russia-China: Is There a Case for Strategic Partnership

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A long-standing idea to link India, Russia and China in a strategic triangle has received renewed attention in the Russian media following President Putin’s visit to India on December 2014. Against the backdrop of Western sanctions imposed on Russia and recalling its close friendship with India and growing ties with China, some Russian newspaper articles have resuscitated the notion of a Russia-India-China (RIC) strategic triangle in international affairs. The books discusses the question as to the extent to which the RIC construct is useful for India and what its stance should be towards suggestions to raise it to a triangular strategic partnership.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ambassador Ajai Malhotra

Ambassador Ajai Malhotra joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1977. Besides assignments at the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, he has served at Indian diplomatic missions in Bucharest, Geneva, Kuwait, Moscow, Nairobi, New York, and Washington DC. He was the Ambassador of India to Romania, Albania and Moldova (2003-2005), Ambassador & Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York (2005-2009), Ambassador of India to Kuwait (2009-2011), and Ambassador of India to the Russian Federation (2011-2013). He retired from the Government of India on November 30, 2013, after thirty seven years of distinguished service. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi.