On the 11th local time, US President Biden and Indian Prime Minister Modi held an hour-long online meeting and exchanged "frank" views on India's position in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
According to CNN, citing U.S. government officials, Biden did not ask Modi to make a clear position on the situation between Russia and Ukraine during the meeting, nor did he ask Modi to promise to stop buying energy from Russia.
As for a topic that the West is stirring up, Modi said that the Indian side strongly condemned the killing of a large number of civilians in the Ukrainian city of Bucha earlier this month and called for an independent investigation into the incident. This is also what India has expressed before, which is far from the position of the United States.
After the meeting, the White House issued a call minutes that put the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in a very low position, and said that the leaders of the two countries mainly talked about the international food supply issue. Many American and Western media, who had focused on hyping up biden's "pressure" on India on the situation between Russia and Ukraine before the call, consciously put this topic in a secondary position in the report after the call.
However, the Indian media is quite "straightforward". The Times of India said that "Washington failed to persuade New Delhi to follow the position of the United States and NATO on the Russian issue" precisely because the differences between the two sides on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict did not change during the call, and the leaders of the two countries talked about cooperation in other areas.
On the same day, the fourth US-India "2+2" ministerial dialogue was held in Washington. U.S. Secretary of State Blinken said after the meeting that the United States believes India has the right to express its reaction to the events in Ukraine. Regarding India's purchase of Russian energy, Indian Foreign Minister Jaijay So jaisheng said after the meeting that this matter should be asked to Europe rather than India, "Maybe our total purchase volume in a month is not as much as europe buys in an afternoon."
Biden's ultimate lobbying has come to an end to the recent Threat of Western Co-optation against India. It is also a clear setback to the efforts of the United States to coerce countries around the world to join the sanctions against Russia in the past two months.
Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, the United States has frequently pressured countries to impose sanctions on Russia, otherwise it will pay a "price". However, it is becoming increasingly clear that escalating sanctions have not helped to de-escalate the situation, but have created more new problems for the world in the midst of the pandemic. The all-round economic sanctions imposed by the United States on Russia have not only caused damage to the Russian economy and people's livelihood, but also caused a serious impact on the global energy, food and financial markets. The United States does not have the right to let people pay for their strategic self-interest, and more and more people have come forward to say "no" to the United States' approach.
South African President Ramaphosa recently said that the root cause of the Conflict between Russia and Ukraine lies in NATO's eastward expansion behavior for many years, and although some people try to make South Africa oppose Russia, South Africa will not take a hostile stance or behavior toward Russia.
Narapat, vice chairman of India's Manipal Education Group, said in an interview with the main station reporter a few days ago that Europe and the United States urged India to stop buying Russian oil and buy American oil at a high price, which is to make hundreds of millions of Indian people suffer for it.
At the recent plenary session of the Brazilian Senate, Brazilian Foreign Minister França criticized the way Western countries handled the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, arguing that the economic sanctions imposed on Russia would seriously damage the interests of developing countries and economic development. Brazil's agriculture minister, Cristina, said banning fertilizer supplies in Russia would exacerbate inflation and threaten food security, and potash prices in the Brazilian market have soared from $300 a tonne a year ago to an all-time high of $1,100 a tonne.
What is obvious is that the united states has imposed sanctions on Russia has caused a huge impact on the world, especially developing countries, and a series of chain reactions such as soaring food prices are threatening people's lives. If the United States continues to act willfully, it will wait for more walls and failures. (Author: He Yu, Chen Yujuan)
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