<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Abhijit Iyer-Mitra"><item><title>The India-Russia-China triangle: How the border clashes affect it</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-india-russia-china-triangle-how-the-border-clashes-affect-it/</link><pubDate>June 29, 2020, 5:43 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ind-russia-china.png</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>THE BACKGROUND Never in a position to break out of the subcontinent, India’s strategic goal in Asia, at least since independence has been to prevent one power bloc from monopolising the landmass. Russia in its USSR avatar and China on the other ha...</excerpt></item><item><title>India and America in the post Covid era</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/india-and-america-in-the-post-covid-era/</link><pubDate>May 26, 2020, 3:51 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/24-5-1-300x169.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>Even if India’s political leadership wanted the realignment in US ties, the note clearly hasn’t been circulated to either the military or the bureaucracy, both of which continue to harbour a deep suspicion of the US.</excerpt></item></author></feed>