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India Gazette
2 days ago
- Business
- India Gazette
Moscow wants to rekindle Russia-India-China format as NATO fuels discord
The foreign minister has suggested reviving cooperation amid an easing of tensions between New Delhi and Beijing Moscow is interested in restarting cooperation within the Russia, India, and China (RIC) format as NATO countries try to sow discord between New Delhi and Beijing, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Speaking at a Eurasian security conference on Thursday, Lavrov emphasized Russia's "genuine interest" in reviving the RIC trilateral dialogue, citing recent de-escalation along the India-China border as a timely opportunity. "Now that, as I understand it, an understanding is being reached between India and China on how to calm the border situation, I believe the time has come to revive the RIC trio," he stated. China and India have been locked in a military standoff along their disputed Himalayan border, known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC), since a deadly clash in the Galwan Valley in June 2020. They have since held multiple rounds of talks to reduce tensions and, while some areas of friction remain, officials from the two countries have recently reported signs of de-escalation and continued military and diplomatic engagement. In his speech, Lavrov also expressed concern about NATO's alleged attempts to involve India in anti-China strategies. "I have no doubt that our Indian friends - and I say this based on confidential conversations with them - clearly see this provocation," he said. Lavrov previously stated that Western powers were expecting to "make our great friends and neighbors India and China clash." He claimed that this approach was part of a broader agenda to provoke confrontation in the Indo-Pacific and diminish the role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the region. His comments come as India has continued to develop its strategic cooperation with Western countries, including by taking part in joint military exercises and signing defense agreements with the US. New Delhi, however, has refrained from joining any formal alliances. India has also maintained strong relations with Russia despite Western pressure related to the Ukraine conflict. New Delhi has opted not to join Western sanctions against Moscow and has expanded economic cooperation, particularly in the energy sector, becoming one of Russia's largest oil buyers. The countries have set a target of boosting trade to over $100 billion by 2030.
India Gazette
2 days ago
- Business
- India Gazette
Russia seeks improved India-China ties amid NATO 'provocations'
The foreign minister has suggested reviving cooperation amid an easing of tensions between New Delhi and Beijing Moscow is interested in restarting cooperation within the Russia, India, and China (RIC) format as NATO countries try to sow discord between New Delhi and Beijing, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Speaking at a Eurasian security conference on Thursday, Lavrov emphasized Russia's "genuine interest" in reviving the RIC trilateral dialogue, citing recent de-escalation along the India-China border as a timely opportunity. "Now that, as I understand it, an understanding is being reached between India and China on how to calm the border situation, I believe the time has come to revive the RIC trio," he stated. China and India have been locked in a military standoff along their disputed Himalayan border, known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC), since a deadly clash in the Galwan Valley in June 2020. They have since held multiple rounds of talks to reduce tensions and, while some areas of friction remain, officials from the two countries have recently reported signs of de-escalation and continued military and diplomatic engagement. In his speech, Lavrov also expressed concern about NATO's alleged attempts to involve India in anti-China strategies. "I have no doubt that our Indian friends - and I say this based on confidential conversations with them - clearly see this provocation," he said. Lavrov previously stated that Western powers were expecting to "make our great friends and neighbors India and China clash." He claimed that this approach was part of a broader agenda to provoke confrontation in the Indo-Pacific and diminish the role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the region. His comments come as India has continued to develop its strategic cooperation with Western countries, including by taking part in joint military exercises and signing defense agreements with the US. New Delhi, however, has refrained from joining any formal alliances. India has also maintained strong relations with Russia despite Western pressure related to the Ukraine conflict. New Delhi has opted not to join Western sanctions against Moscow and has expanded economic cooperation, particularly in the energy sector, becoming one of Russia's largest oil buyers. The countries have set a target of boosting trade to over $100 billion by 2030.
India Gazette
2 days ago
- Business
- India Gazette
Russia seeks improved India-China ties amid NATO provocations Lavrov
The foreign minister has suggested reviving cooperation amid an easing of tensions between New Delhi and Beijing Moscow is interested in restarting cooperation within the Russia, India, and China (RIC) format as NATO countries try to sow discord between New Delhi and Beijing, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Speaking at a Eurasian security conference on Thursday, Lavrov emphasized Russia's "genuine interest" in reviving the RIC trilateral dialogue, citing recent de-escalation along the India-China border as a timely opportunity. "Now that, as I understand it, an understanding is being reached between India and China on how to calm the border situation, I believe the time has come to revive the RIC trio," he stated. China and India have been locked in a military standoff along their disputed Himalayan border, known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC), since a deadly clash in the Galwan Valley in June 2020. They have since held multiple rounds of talks to reduce tensions and, while some areas of friction remain, officials from the two countries have recently reported signs of de-escalation and continued military and diplomatic engagement. In his speech, Lavrov also expressed concern about NATO's alleged attempts to involve India in anti-China strategies. "I have no doubt that our Indian friends - and I say this based on confidential conversations with them - clearly see this provocation," he said. Lavrov previously stated that Western powers were expecting to "make our great friends and neighbors India and China clash." He claimed that this approach was part of a broader agenda to provoke confrontation in the Indo-Pacific and diminish the role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the region. His comments come as India has continued to develop its strategic cooperation with Western countries, including by taking part in joint military exercises and signing defense agreements with the US. New Delhi, however, has refrained from joining any formal alliances. India has also maintained strong relations with Russia despite Western pressure related to the Ukraine conflict. New Delhi has opted not to join Western sanctions against Moscow and has expanded economic cooperation, particularly in the energy sector, becoming one of Russia's largest oil buyers. The countries have set a target of boosting trade to over $100 billion by 2030. (
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Business Standard
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Standard
Chinese students looking for new destinations amid Trump's visa crackdowns
In a shift from past trends, many Chinese students are now reconsidering the US as their top destination for higher education. This change follows the Trump administration's visa crackdown, casting uncertainty over their dreams of studying in the US. Anqi Dong, a 30-year-old lawyer from Shanghai, wanted to pursue a PhD programme from the University of Texas in Dallas. But now, he is thinking of pursuing it in countries other than the US. 'Everything is looking just too uncertain right now in America,' she said. 'I'm now considering programmes in Finland and Norway, which I never actually thought about before. These are rich and stable places,' Dong said, as quoted by Bloomberg. This is not just Dong's story. Many students, including those from India, are facing the similar challenges, as US President Donald Trump's tightened scrutiny on issuing international visas has made things uncertain in the US. Why is Trump cracking down on Chinese students? The US officials claimed the recent tightening of scrutiny on Chinese international students is primarily due to national security concerns and rising geopolitical tensions with China. US officials further alleged that some Chinese students — especially those in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields — could be involved in intellectual property theft or espionage on behalf of the Chinese government. US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have both emphasised the risk posed by students with ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Earlier this week, Rubio announced that student visas would be 'aggressively' revoked for individuals with links to the Chinese Communist Party or those studying in sensitive academic fields. New applicants from China and Hong Kong will also be subjected to intensified scrutiny. The Bloomberg report mentioned the sweeping nature of these actions — especially the broad definition of Communist Party ties — has sent shockwaves through Chinese academic circles. With around 100 million formal party members and far more indirectly connected, the net being cast is wide. Crackdown shakes Chinese academia in the US Zhou Huiying, founder of Shanghai-based consultancy Lideyouwei Education Technology, says the impact is already showing. 'At least 30 per cent of my clients have either cancelled plans to study in the US or are applying to schools in places like Australia, the UK and Singapore as backups,' she said, as quoted by Bloomberg. 'Some families, where the parents are Communist Party members working for the government, are pretty concerned and now abandoning the US as an option,' Huiying added. Confusion among Chinese students The confusion among students is exacerbated by a broader anti-China stance seen in Trump's second term, including a pledge to ban international students from top institutions, like Harvard. Interviews for student visas have also been abruptly halted at US embassies worldwide. Fangzhou Jiang, a student at Harvard Kennedy School and co-founder of college consulting firm Crimson Education, said, 'I'm still cautious because, number one, I tick both boxes at the moment, right? Both Chinese and Harvard,' he said. 'I've got some big targets on my back. So I don't want to be blindly optimistic.' According to news reports, education consultants across China have seen a spike in applications to countries like Canada, Australia, and European nations that offer high-quality programmes with fewer political hurdles. China is second largest international students source to US Even as the US remains home to hundreds of thousands of Chinese students — the second-largest international student population after India — enrollment has started to slip. In the 2023-2024 academic year, Chinese student numbers dropped by 4 per cent, with many citing political and visa-related concerns.
India Today
2 days ago
- Politics
- India Today
Time has come: Moscow bats for revival of Russia-India-China troika format
Moscow is genuinely interested in the revival of activities within the framework of the Russia-India-China (RIC) format, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday.'I would like to confirm our genuine interest in the earliest resumption of the work within the format of the troika -- Russia, India, China -- which was established many years ago on the initiative of (ex-Russian prime minister) Yevgeny Primakov, and which has organised meetings more than 20 times at the ministerial level since then, not only at the level of foreign policy chiefs, but also the heads of other economic, trade and financial agencies of the three countries,' Lavrov was quoted as saying by Russian news agency foreign minister was addressing an international social and political conference on forming a single and equitable system of security and cooperation in Eurasia in the city of Perm in the Ural Mountains, where Europe borders with Asia, at the plenary session of the conference.'As of today, as I understand, an understanding has been reached between India and China on how to ease the situation on the border, and it seems to me that the time has come for the revival of this RIC troika,' Lavrov also alleged that NATO is blatantly trying to lure India into anti-China intrigues.'I have no doubts that our Indian friends, and I say this on the basis of confidential conversations with them, obviously see this trend that can be actually deemed as a large provocation,' Lavrov RIC troika was frozen since the Galwan crisis in June the bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Russia's Kazan in October 2024 was seen as a thaw when the two leaders expressed the need to improve bilateral Watch advertisementIN THIS STORY#Russia
