Popular Indian media outlet ThePrint published an article about this on Wednesday titled “India-Russia annual summit postponed for 1st time in two decades amid Moscow’s unease with Quad” which quotes some unnamed sources, former diplomat Ashok Sajjanhar who was posted in Russia in the early 2000s, and former Indian Ambassador to Russia Kanwal Sibal. Russia, for its part, has done all that it can to convince India of its benign strategic intentions vis-a-vis China and Pakistan but to no avail. American influence is so powerful over India nowadays that its diplomats won’t want to listen to Moscow’s words. Russia hasn’t submitted to China like those Indian figures are dishonestly implying, nor is it stabbing India in the back in secret partnership with China like Ambassador Sibal suspects. Unless India stops its latest information warfare campaign, Russia will likely distrust it more with each passing provocation.

Source: The Express Tribune December 24, 2020 11:37 UTC