{"id":767,"date":"2026-05-27T03:32:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianewscast.com\/2026\/05\/27\/growing-sino-russian-cooperation-worries-india\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:32:57","slug":"growing-sino-russian-cooperation-worries-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asianewscast.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Growing Sino-Russian Cooperation Worries India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russian President Vladmir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping shake hands during Putin\u2019s state visit to Beijing, May 20, 2026.<\/p>\n

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The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during the latter\u2019s visit to Beijing on May 19-20 was closely watched in New Delhi for its outcomes.<\/a><\/p>\n

While Russia is a close strategic ally of India, China has been a difficult neighbor, with whom it has a long-standing border dispute. The Sino-Russian relationship, going forward from the Beijing summit, would have implications for India.<\/p>\n

The Xi-Putin summit saw the two sides agree to extend the China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighbourliness, Friendship and Cooperation, which was originally signed in 2001 and extended in 2021. According to a Russian statement<\/a>, the two sides agreed \u201cto strengthen coordination and interaction in bilateral and multilateral formats, jointly respond to various challenges and threats, and support global and regional security and stability.\u201d This could see Moscow and Beijing continue to coordinate their responses to major global crises, including in the UN Security Council and other major international groupings like the SCO and BRICS.<\/p>\n

Signaling deeper cooperation, Xi and Putin oversaw the signing of 20 pacts in areas spanning economy and trade, education and science and technology.<\/p>\n

Sino-Russian cooperation has grown particularly since 2022. Under pressure from Western sanctions due to its invasion of Ukraine, Russia was cut off from the SWIFT<\/a> system of international payments, restricting its access to the global financial services system and hampering its ability to transact international business. Its revenues from selling energy dropped as did its access to Western technology. This made Moscow heavily reliant<\/a> on China. India has watched this deepening cooperation with significant concern.<\/p>\n

India and Russia have what they describe as a \u201cspecial and privileged strategic partnership.<\/a>\u201d Maintaining strong ties with Moscow is important for India, given its dependence on Russian military equipment and spares. Growing proximity between Russia and China worries India, as it would like Russia to be on its side in the event of a war or crisis with China.<\/p>\n

Worryingly for India, the Russia-China Joint Statement<\/a> on Good-Neighbourliness talks not only of closer interaction between the political establishments of the two countries, but also affirms strengthening the \u201ctraditional friendship\u201d between their armed forces, deepening mutual trust in the military sphere, strengthening coordination and joint response \u201cto various challenges and threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChina-Russia ties are moving towards greater strategic depth, especially after the start of the Ukraine conflict and now with the Iran crisis. Both are opposed to U.S. hegemony,\u201d Anuradha Chenoy, a former professor of Russian Studies with Jawaharlal Nehru University, told The Diplomat. \u201cBut I don\u2019t see this as a zero-sum game,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

At the Beijing summit, Russia and China failed to sign an agreement on a gas pipeline, known as the Power of Siberia 2<\/a>, between the two countries. A pact on the pipeline would have provided a shot in the arm to China\u2019s energy security amid the current global energy crisis due to the Iran war and closure of the Straits of Hormuz, and boosted Russian oil revenues.<\/p>\n

The failure of the two sides to clinch a deal on the Siberia 2 pipeline has opened up opportunity for India, Srikanth Kondapalli, a professor of Chinese Studies at the New Delhi-based Jawaharlal Nehru University, told The Diplomat. It could work to India\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n

India, which imports<\/a> almost 88 percent of its crude oil needs and 51 percent of its natural gas requirements, has been hit hard<\/a> by the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz crisis, and is looking to Russia<\/a> to make up for the shortfall it is facing due to the West Asian crisis.<\/p>\n

However, it may not be able to benefit from the opportunity that has opened up. Should it step up the purchase of Russian oil and gas in the coming months, it would rile the Americans, drawing punitive tariffs and other slap-downs as it did last year\u2014punishment for Delhi\u2019s increased purchase of discounted Russian crude from 2022.<\/p>\n

At Beijing, Russia and China signed a joint statement on \u201cAdvocating a Multipolar World and New Type of International Relations.\u201d This is being welcomed in India as the concept of multipolarity is one that India supports<\/a>, given that Delhi is eyeing a greater role for itself in Asia and at the larger global level.<\/p>\n

However, \u201cthe concept of multipolarity is not stable, it is not constant, and it has not yet\u00a0matured,\u201d Kondapalli said, pointing out that with the U.S. and China looking to settle their differences and stabilize their relationship, it could result in \u201cChina\u2019s commitment to multipolarity declining gradually.\u201d<\/p>\n

It would mean that China will give \u201cless importance to BRICS, for instance,\u201d since Trump views it as an anti-American<\/a> grouping. It could result in China de-prioritizing reform of administrative structures and lending norms within multilateral lending institutions, for example, Kondapalli said.<\/p>\n

In an unpredictable and tumultuous world, it is important for India to keep Russia on its side, even as it manages its ties with the U.S., especially with the U.S. now appearing less reliable as a partner. Meanwhile, Delhi will need to keep an eye on Russia\u2019s growing dependence on China.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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