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How India plans to checkmate China - Caspian Report
For #India and #China, the idea of choking the other sits at the core of their #geopolitics, whether by a String of Pearls or a Necklace of Diamonds.
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because if it ever goes to actual war, India uses very bad quality Russian weapons. Absolutely a mistake. India should have chosen closer ties to the US instead of Russia. 
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