China, Russia, Pakistan Superpower

Triangle Becoming Reality

By Polina Tikhonova • on November 15, 2016 4:59 pm • in Politics

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The Russia, China and Pakistan superpower triangle is becoming a

reality. Moscow has just announced it will hold trilateral Russian-
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As theories around the Russia, China and Pakistan superpower

triangle continue to build up, Moscow has just expressed its interest
in strengthening ties with Islamabad and Beijing. The agenda of next
month’s talks will be establishing a wider regional partnership on
Afghanistan.

Zamir Kabulov, Russian Foreign Ministry’s director of the Second

Asian Department, announced on Monday that the Russian-Chinese-
Pakistani consultations will be held in Moscow in December.

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 “We are discussing this with the Chinese, the Iranians, Indians,
Pakistanis. There is work on specifics,” Kabulov said, adding that it’s
in the regional nations’ “natural” interests to guard themselves from
terrorist threats in the region.

China, Russia and Pakistan form a powerful

nuclear force
The news comes amid rising war tensions between India and
Pakistan. Although Russia remains India’s key weapons supplier,
there is a number of reasons why the Russia, China and Pakistan
superpower triangle is becoming a reality.

Russia has been actively strengthening its military, economic and

diplomatic ties with both China and Pakistan. Even though Pakistan
is Russia’s Cold War rival, Moscow is understandably keen on
forming an alliance with Islamabad and Beijing. China and Pakistan
have been traditional allies for decades. Beijing has always provided
its military and diplomatic support to Islamabad against its
historical enemy, India.

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 Forming the Russian-Chinese-Pakistani superpower triangle would
not only allow them to impose efficient measures to counter the
spread of terrorism and radicalism in the region but also stand up to
America’s growing influence in the region. In fact, given that Russia,
China and Pakistan are all nuclear powers, their alliance also makes
them an intimidating nuclear force to be reckoned with.

Russia, China and Pakistan have about 7,620 nuclear warheads

(according to the official figures provided by the SIPRI) combined.
That’s a serious advantage in a potential military confrontation
against any enemy of such a superpower triangle, whether it’s India
or the United States.

Is Russia abandoning its ally India for Pakistan?

Interestingly, Russia announced the Russian-Chinese-Pakistani talks
a few days after India, Pakistan’s traditional nemesis, signed a
historical nuclear deal with Japan. In fact, it was the first-ever
nuclear deal signed by Japan, which is the only country to have
suffered a nuclear attack, with a non-NPT nation.

India, like Pakistan, never signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation

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 of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Seeing that India is strengthening ties
with its regional allies, Russia and China decided to ramp up their
support for Pakistan. The Russian-Chinese-Pakistani talks in
December will mark yet another indication of Russia and China’s
growing interest toward Pakistan.

Last month, Russia

and China backed
Pakistan’s position
against India during
the BRICS summit.
Despite the fact that
Pakistanis were
absent at the summit,
Russian President
Vladimir Putin and his
Chinese counterpart Xi
Jinping rejected the
India-sponsored resolution to declare Islamabad a “terrorist
state.” It then became apparent that Russia hasn’t ruled out the
possibility of abandoning ties with its key weapons importer, India,
for the sake of the China, Russia and Pakistan new superpower

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 triangle.

Superpower triangle: Russia and China step up

cooperation with Pakistan
Both Russia and China have stepped up their diplomatic efforts to
prevent New Delhi from isolating Pakistan and making it a pariah
state.

A few months ago, China blocked India’s entry into the Nuclear
Suppliers’ Group. Shortly afterwards, Russia held its surprise joint
military drills with Pakistan. In fact, the military exercises took place
just weeks after India’s tensions with Pakistan reached its new
peak, which certainly sent a message to New Delhi.

India is being careful not to scare away the Russians. New Delhi has
yet to finalize a few major arms deals with Moscow. The purchase
of those weapons would allow India to gain an advantage in a
potential war against Pakistan. India and Russia are currently
negotiating the purchase of S-400 anti-aircraft weapon systems,
stealth frigates and a second nuclear submarine from Moscow.

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 However, Russia has been making military deals with Pakistan too.
Although it was reported on Tuesday that Russia turned down
Pakistan’s request to sell the advanced Su-35 fighter jet, the two
countries still made quite a few crucial military deals. Last year,
Islamabad purchased four Mi-35 helicopter gunships from Moscow.
Meanwhile high-ranking Pakistani army officials have increased the
frequency of their visits to Russia, which suggests the two nations
are looking to ramp up their military cooperation.

Pakistan is the world’s seventh-largest importer of defense

equipment, which is a huge factor for Russia when it comes to
picking allies in Asia.

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Pakistan superpower triangle
Pakistan finally realized that all the financial support that has come
from the U.S. in past years only prevented the nuclear-powered
country from becoming financially independent. Most Pakistanis
believe that both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have played major roles
in spreading sectarianism and terrorism in the country.

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 It’s also unclear how the U.S. will treat Pakistan now that Donald
Trump has been elected to be the next President. But given their
past grievances, it’s likely that Pakistan aspires to be part of the
superpower triangle with China and Russia.

In fact, both China and Russia seem to be more reliable towards

Pakistan compared to the U.S. While Washington has weakened its
diplomatic support to Islamabad, Beijing and Moscow seem to be
eager to continue defending Pakistanis on the diplomatic sphere.

Pakistan is on the winning side; India, not so

much
China has repeatedly pledged to help Pakistan in case of any foreign
aggression. It also adds to the fact that China supplies Pakistan
with more weapons than any other country in the world. For Russia,
meanwhile, Pakistan is a potentially lucrative buyer of its advanced
weapons.

Aside from strengthening military and diplomatic ties with

Islamabad, Beijing is also actively building nuclear reactors in
Pakistan. So basically, the superpower triangle between China,
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 Russia and Pakistan can become an intimidating force in the region.

While India is stronger than Islamabad in terms of army power,

Pakistan has more nuclear weapons than its historical enemy. In the
modern world, having a more powerful nuclear arsenal is the
ultimate way of winning any war.

India also loses in terms of its geopolitical support from other

nations. While India seems to have the support from Japan, it can’t
fully rely on the U.S. It remains a mystery to what extent Donald
Trump will be willing to help India in case of any military
confrontation. In fact, it’s unclear if India is even going to get any
kind of support from Trump at all. So Pakistan and its new
superpower friends – Russia and China – appear to be on the
winning side.

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