India is the weak link in BRICS. More than Russia, it has a natural rivalry with China, and has fought several border skirmishes. The country was ruled by Britain for two centuries, and English is effectively the common language. India is not totalitarian unlike China, and does not have the equivalent of the CCP, which is both a Mafia and an enforcer of ideology. Instead of obsessing over Ukraine or now West Africa, the rulers of the West need to court India.
How India is slowly moving into the American orbit
New Delhi still fiercely defends its neutrality. But wariness of China is pushing it ever closer to Washington
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