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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/LA05Ag03.html
By Peter Lee
By Peter Lee
Click on Link for the full versionUnsound strategy, mutual mistrust and opportunism are combining to frustrate the efforts of Moscow and India to blunt China's soft-power push into Russia's "near beyond" - the oil and gas-rich former Soviet republics that line the path of the ancient Silk Road from the Caspian Sea to China's doorstep at Xinjiang province.
Russia's unwelcome efforts to cobble together a Central Asian security bloc and claim a central role in a new, multi-polar Euroasian security structure have been the main stumbling block to advancement of its interests in the region.
It has not received a lot of help from India's opportunistic decision to play the "Great Game" on the cheap - piggybacking the military...