🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳 Within this fluid international landscape, the RIC triangle, despite its informal character and internal contradictions, offers a potential stabilising core for the emerging Asian order.

Today’s multipolarity is characterised by cooperation, competition, and confrontation, with states participating in multiple, contradictory institutional alignments. China and India collaborate within BRICS+ while facing off across the Himalayas.

Russia aligns with Beijing while partnering with Delhi. The United States competes with China while probing the G2 concept.

The RIC grouping possesses three distinguishing attributes: civilisational depth spanning millennia, continental centrality bridging Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific, and shared impulses toward strategic autonomy in resisting hierarchical alliances.

 
Instead of advocating for competing visions, Russia, India and China must explore interoperability standards, joint financing for third-country projects, and complementary corridor development.

RIC must remain issue-based rather than evolving into a formal alliance, preserving utility while avoiding a bloc formation that could trigger balancing responses, writes Maj Gen (Retd) BK Sharma.

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