Russia's diplomacy of interests and partnerships with major powers (China - India) to support a multilateral world

Abstract

Russia maintains stable, consistent, and clearly defined relations with the world's two rising powers, China and India. Despite the discord between them, there are common grounds governed by a type of partnership distributed across a wide range of diverse interests, and sheltered by a similar vision in the strategic perspective that governs their aspirations toward a multipolar international system, and an awareness of the position each party enjoys in the international balance of power. This gives each party the opportunity to assume the position they deem appropriate. In accordance with the logic governing international interactions, economic interests have become the basis upon which these poles rely in sharing the definition of their roles and positions, and in rebuilding and leading the international system. The years of the Ukrainian war, extending from 2022-2025, have crystallized complete clarity regarding the directions of cooperation and partnership between these poles through the governance of the system of economic, energy, and security interests.