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India’s balancing act between Moscow, Beijing and the West

India, like China, rejects Western sanctions against Russia. Prime Minister Modi made that clear during a visit to Berlin. But their mutual rejection does not make the world’s two most populous states friends. On the contrary, there is no end in sight to the tensions.

These days, a world map has been making the rounds on the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Twitter accounts. Spokesman Zhao Lijian even seems so fond of it that he has pinned it at the top above all his other tweets. “The ‘international community’ you always hear about,” the image says. Below is a picture of a world made up only of North America, Europe, Australia, Japan and New Zealand. Everything else is blue ocean.

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