Indian Prime Minister Modi posted on December 4: "I am very pleased to welcome my friend President Putin to India. I look forward to exchanging views with him this evening and tomorrow. The friendship between India and Russia has stood the test of time and has greatly benefited our two peoples."
Comments: For India, it is about using "friendship" to consolidate core interests such as Russian equipment supply and energy discounts, aligning with its foreign policy logic of "strategic autonomy"; for Russia, this is a friendly signal from India under Western pressure, providing key support to break through sanctions and expand the Asian market, making "benefiting the people of both countries" translate into concrete cooperation.
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