Al Mussawar magazine, p.14, (21-2-2007)

A new Asian alliance in face of Washington's hegemony over the world

Western reports pointed out that Russia, China and India are on their way to form an economic alliance in face of the western, specially the American, control over the world. The three countries seek to prevent Washington from exclusively addressing some issues, from these of Afghanistan, the Middle East and Iran to those of Korea, the trade agreements and non-proliferation treaties. Moscow, Beijing and Delhi are seeking rapprochement. The reason, politicians in these countries noticed, is that they take similar reactions to international issues without previous consultations or coordination, which invites them to coordinate among themselves to get better results. One important point shared by the three countries is that they are all against any foreign interference in the separatist issues such as the Chechnya’s' attempts to separate from Russia, India's North Eastern region to separate from the country and the North Western region of Xingjian to separate from China.

It was generally agreed that India and China would acquire their oil and gas needs from Russia instead of importing them from western countries. The issue most agreed upon is that they all reject the US military intervention in Iran. However, they did not express it explicitly in the meeting held by the foreign ministers of the three countries. It is well known that India, China and Russia have 40% of the world population and control 20% of the world economy and more than half of the world's nuclear warheads. Some diplomats think that it is still early for the three countries to form an alliance, yet it is not too early.