🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳 From a global governance perspective, the Russia–India–China (RIC) structural framework is less a vehicle for alignment than a tool for keeping channels open as multilateral institutions become harder to use for genuine problem-solving.

RIC is neither an alliance nor a treaty-based body; it is a deliberately light platform that helps three major powers exchange assessments when broader forums become increasingly polarised and procedural.

That lightness explains its durability through repeated geopolitical shocks, but it also defines its ceiling: RIC can facilitate dialogue and selective coordination, yet it cannot override structural divergences—most notably the China–India strategic rivalry and the asymmetric pressures Russia faces from the West.

The Russia–India–China (RIC) framework is neither obsolete nor transformative. Its value is limited but real: it keeps channels open and enables selective, low-cost coordination among three Eurasian powers in a fragmented order.

With realistic expectations, RIC can function as a pragmatic stabiliser; burdened with grand ambitions, it will likely disappoint and expose the fractures it cannot resolve, Nong Hong writes.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/ric-in-2026-what-it-can-and-cannot-do/

#IndianValdai

🗣🗣🗣