Russia, India and China are conscious of their common pursuits in a number of sectors, and there may be an overt pattern of growing mutual partnership, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated on Sunday (September 7, 2025).
Mr. Lavrov was referring to the current bonhomie displayed by the leaders of the three international locations on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in the Chinese metropolis of Tianjin final week.
A Triple handshake and huddle of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese chief Xi Jinping on the summit hogged international headlines.
It even prompted U.S. President Donald Trump, in a social media put up, to lament the lack of India and Russia to “deepest and darkest” China.
“It is a demonstration that three great powers, representing three great civilisations, are aware of their common interests in a number of areas,” Mr. Lavrov stated in an interview with Russian State TV.
‘Deriving mutual benefit from areas of common interests’
Setting apart hypothesis, Mr. Lavrov clarified, “This does not mean that everything is 100% the same, but there is a tendency for China, Russia and India to develop their partnership, deriving mutual benefit from those areas where we have the same interests.”
According to the Foreign Minister, the common pursuits of the three international locations lie in growing the economic system, fixing social issues, and bettering the residing requirements of the inhabitants.
Though the main focus of the SCO summit was to guarantee deeper safety and financial complementarities amongst its member nations, what drew bigger consideration was the general public show of bonhomie amongst Mr. Modi, Mr. Putin and Mr. Xi, signalling a broader convergence among the many three main powers.
A video of Mr. Modi and Mr. Putin holding palms and strolling in the direction of Mr. Xi, and then all three forming an in depth circle nearly as good pals had gone viral on social media.
Mr. Trump’s remark about dropping India to China got here amid a downturn in relations between New Delhi and Washington after the U.S. president doubled tariffs on Indian items to a whopping 50%, together with a 25% further duties for India’s buy of Russian oil.
Meanwhile, a high oriental knowledgeable right here has dominated out a close-knit RIC (Russia-India-China) dialogue.
Speaking in a daily rubric of Vesti FM ‘The Asian Casket’, Director of Moscow University’s Africa-Asia Institute Dr. Aleksi Maslov underscored that in Asia, India is a serious democracy, though totally different from Europe, and it has totally different decision-making mechanisms.
Dr. Maslov stated he believes that interplay between the troika will deeply develop on a bilateral foundation.
