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New Delhi: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu hit out at the US and multilateral groupings like Quad, which India is part of, while putting his weight behind China at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ meeting here Friday. Shoigu said that “in order to contain China, a front is forming”. He alleged that the tension around the “so-called” Taiwan problem is purposely escalated, and that territorial disputes in the South China Sea and East China Sea are being heated. “In our understanding, one of the major achievements in the Asia-Pacific region is bloc-free and equal interaction. And it must...
