CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES CALLS QUAD AN "EMPTY TALK CLUB"

The Global Times (March 8) cited Chinese experts saying the US attempts to gather allies "will end up in dismay, as other members in the club have an "all-for-itself" agenda, and won't tie themselves to the US' scheme". It aid "The divergences in each country's goals will eventually dissipate the Quad, which will make it resemble an "empty talk club," instead of a security alliance". Yang Xiyu, senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies, was quoted as telling Global Times that the US wants to seize India as weight to retake its hegemony in the Indo-Pacific region and counter China; and India plans to showcase its cooperation with the US to bluff in front of China regarding its influence. He said "India will never settle for being just a subsidized ally of the US, the stance is determined by its fundamental principle of nonalignment and ambition to become a world superpower. Moreover, New Delhi cannot afford the cost of provoking China by publicly taking sides between Beijing and Washington."





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