The new super power coalition – Indian, Chinese and Russian foreign ministers to meet in Russia on June 2 Preetam Sohani May 30, 2005
China, India and Russia are developing a coalition that can challenge and balance the global security and energy crisis against the sole super power America. The foreign ministers of these three countries will meet in the far-eastern Russian port city of Vladivostok, scheduled for June 2, for their first three-way summit.
Each of the countries have denied any intension of forming alliance against United States. However, the whole issue of military and energy coalition started at the sidelines of UN General Assembly meetings after the American unilateralist approach to Iraq and resulting precedence of lack of global security.
The meeting between India's External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and their Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing will be the start of a new era – a possible new cold war between the sole super power United States and the super power coalition of India, China and Russia.
All the foreign ministers are upbeat however they show no anti-American sentiment. They call it exchange of ideas between the three countries.
The Russians first proposed the meetings. First few meetings centered on global terrorism and energy crisis. Now it is destined to much wider with the center stage occupied by the military, political and strategic collaboration of three major powers to balance the security vacuum in the world.
Energy-starved China and India are looking at Russia's northern oil reserves as a possible source to meet their burgeoning energy requirements, an Indian official said on condition of anonymity.
According to international think tanks, the energy crisis will trigger a power struggle in the world. Iraqi oil was the start of the trigger. India and China will compete with the West for energy. Russians have the oil and Gas to share. Russia needs India and China in a collation to counter United States effectively.