India, China, Russia trilateral meeting does not have high status in diplomacy: China daily
India, Russia, China in trilateral meeting
China's Global Times said the "trilateral mechanism will be jeopardized without bilateral conflicts being addressed."
Even as the trilateral meeting between India, China and Russia kicked off in Delhi on Monday, China's right-leaning Global Times said bilateral conflicts should not be dragged into it, otherwise, the "trilateral mechanism will be jeopardized without bilateral conflicts being addressed."
The daily said the meeting between foreign ministers and "the leaders of the three only meet with each other on international occasions, adding, "this indicates it does not have high status in diplomacy and cannot bear more functions."
"India has benefited a great deal from the meeting," the newspaper said.
"As China, Russia and India are all BRICS nations, and India participated in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the trilateral summit indeed has raised the status of India in these two organizations," it said.
The newspaper said while India is engaged in this trilateral meeting, it is also holding "ministerial-level trilateral dialogue" with the US and Japan.
"India's recent tilt to the US has triggered doubts from China and Russia, and it may have a negative effect on the support that China and Russia could offer India," the newspaper observed.
The newspaper said the "negative effect" was the Russia's "change in attitude" over military cooperation with Pakistan.
"As the US under former president Barack Obama dragged India into its rebalance to the Asia-Pacific, but excluded it from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it showed the US supported India just out of its own interests, but not India's," the newspaper said, concluding,"the cooperation between China, Russia and India still has large room to maneuver, and India should find a balance in its "vacillating diplomacy".