The Times plays it more along the line of the next move in the Great Game:-
India, China and Russia account for 40 per cent of the world’s population, a fifth of its economy and more than half of its nuclear warheads. Now they appear to be forming a partnership to challenge the US-dominated world order that has prevailed since the end of the Cold War.
Foreign ministers from the three emerging giants met in Delhi yesterday-
But away from the western axis they stress this tri-lateral meet-up is about survival and evening the odds after the neo-cons showed how batshit insane they are:-
India’s Pranab Mukherjee, Russia’s Sergei Lavrov and China’s Li Zhaoxing discussed economic ties at a time when the Asian giants are seeking more energy supplies and Moscow sits on huge oil and gas reserves.
“They expressed their conviction that democratisation of international relations is the key to building an increasingly multi-polar world order,” the summit’s joint communique said.
But the communique emphasised that “trilateral cooperation was not directed against the interests of any other country”.
“The whole world recognises that problems and conflicts must be solved by common efforts,” Lavrov said, adding that the three foreign ministers discussed the Iran nuclear standoff, Iraq and West Asia.
So diplomatic of them.
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