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Russia’s foreign minister said attempts were being made to provoke a serious clash between the Asian giants

“Take note of the current developments in the Asia-Pacific region, which the West has started calling the Indo-Pacific region to give its policy a clear anti-China orientation — expecting thereby to additionally make our great friends and neighbours India and China clash,” Lavrov was cited as saying on Thursday at a meeting of the ‘Culture without Borders’ diplomatic club.

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“Western colleagues, as in any other part of the world, want to play a major role here, they want to undermine the central role of ASEAN, which has suited everyone for many, many decades and was based on the formation of a unifying space by the ASEAN countries and their partners in dialogue both in the field of politics and in the field of military cooperation, in the field of defense,” Lavrov was quoted as saying by TASS.

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(Most of the article which is very short touches on his remarks about ASEAN and the need for collective security for Eurasia but I thought this merited touching on given India is the real problem child of BRICS, is nuclear armed, and is run by religious supremacists, and is going to suffer the worst effects of climate change far more harshly and sooner than China)