{"id":355767,"date":"2025-08-19T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=355767"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:43:47","slug":"countering-us-tariff-terror-india-strengthens-bonds-with-russia-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/countering-us-tariff-terror-india-strengthens-bonds-with-russia-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Countering US tariff terror, India strengthens bonds with Russia, China\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>PM Modi and Russian President talk for second time in a fortnight while ongoing border talks with China are indicative of the pace of consultations between India and the two key foreign powers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"697\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Gopal-Misra-story-RIC-1024x697.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-335743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Gopal-Misra-story-RIC-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Gopal-Misra-story-RIC-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Gopal-Misra-story-RIC-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Gopal-Misra-story-RIC-696x473.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Gopal-Misra-story-RIC-1068x726.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Gopal-Misra-story-RIC-617x420.jpg 617w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/02\/Gopal-Misra-story-RIC-1920x1306.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">File Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Following his Alaska&#8217; meeting with US President Donald Trump in Alaska, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inform him about the discussions. PM Modi told Putin that India has consistently called for a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict and supported all efforts in this regard in his conversation with Putin who presented his \u201cassessment\u201d of Alaska talks with Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThank my friend, President Putin, for his phone call and for sharing insights on his recent meeting with President Trump in Alaska. India has consistently called for a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict and supports all efforts in this regard. I look forward to our continued exchanges in the days to come,\u201d PM Modi wrote on X&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second conversation between PM Modi and the Russian President in a fortnight. This and ongoing border talks with China are indicative of the pace of consultations between India and two key foreign powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>India-China\u2019 outreach &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi&#8217;s ongoing two-day visit to India comes ahead of PM Modi&#8217;s scheduled visit to China for the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). The visit is significant keeping in mind the pending issue of de-escalation of troops since October last year when the two sides agreed on disengagement from two friction points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wang\u2019s meetings, first with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and then National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval on the pending boundary issue during the 24th round of the Special Representatives (SRs) dialogue will lay the groundwork for a \u201cway forward\u201d for the meeting between PM Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PM Modi\u2019s visit to China for the first time in over seven years is being seen as another sign of a diplomatic thaw with Beijing amid the trade tariff\u2019 tensions with the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Modi and Russian President talk for second time in a fortnight while ongoing border talks with China are indicative of the pace of consultations between India and the two key foreign powers Following his Alaska&#8217; meeting with US President Donald Trump in Alaska, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":335743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,14929,15084,36,53],"tags":[16627,16742,15700,17316,19726],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355768,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355767\/revisions\/355768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/335743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}