Guiding hand in India, China ties by Ehsan Ahrari

Two recent reports about China-India interactions deserve the attention of the countries of Asia-Pacific and the United States. The first one is about a meeting of the foreign ministers of China, India and Russia in Vladivostok, Russia. In that meeting, the countries agreed to "synchronize policies or security and economic issues, with an unstated aim of creating a counterweight to US influence in Asia". The second story is about China's strong opposition to a G-4 resolution (that includes India, Brazil, Japan, and Germany) that would create six new permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council. If China intends to cooperate with India by synchronizing its policies, then why not support a permanent UN seat for India? The reasons are complex, and reflect the increasingly paradoxical relations between the two "rising powers".