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Russia’s war in Ukraine has left India and China walking the diplomatic high wire, as the two Asian neighbours struggle to balance ties with both Moscow and Washington. As Beijing sees it, New Delhi’s refusal to succumb to Western pressure to call out Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression, alongside its dependence on Russian weapons, offer a golden opportunity to pull India away from Washington’s orbit. But hopes that Beijing could leverage the Ukraine crisis to drive a wedge between India and the US and thus draw its South Asian neighbour closer appear to have been misplaced. Instead, there are signs...
