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https://www.aviation-defence-universe.com/india-russia-china-an-uneasy-triangle-of-power/ India, Russia, China: An Uneasy Triangle of Power • RIC Alliance in Flux: Can India Truly Trust China? • India weighs historic ties and rising tensions in a fragile RIC alliance with Russia and China By Jai Kumar Verma New Delhi. 26 August 2025. The RIC alliance—once envisioned as a strategic counterweight to Western dominance—is today at a crossroads, and India finds itself grappling with a pressing question: Can it truly trust China? As strategic fault lines deepen, what was meant to be a trilateral platform for cooperation has increasingly become an uneasy triangle of power. For New Delhi, the partnership is less about shared vision and more about managing contradictions, particularly in its fraught relationship with Beijing. The RIC framework now embodies both opportunity and risk, as headlines like “RIC in Turbulence: India’s Dilemma Over Trusting China” and “RIC at the Crossroads: Strateg...