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India Emerges the Biggest Winner of the Ukraine War and Growing US-China Tensions

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger India is emerging as the biggest beneficiary of the Ukraine War and the US efforts to check China's rise. Indian businesses are busting US sanctions to take advantage of the vacuum left in Russia by the exit of western businesses since the start of the Ukraine War.  At the same time, the US is rewarding India by promoting it as an alternative to China in the global supply chain.  Meanwhile, Beijing is warning New Delhi that India "will be the biggest victim" of America's "proxy war" against China.  L to R: Modi, Putin, Xi and Biden Soaring Russia-India Trade:  Since the start of Russia's invasion of  Ukraine , India has ramped up its imports of  Russian oil  by a whopping 33 times, according to the  Christian Science Monitor .  Dr. Nivedita Kapoor, an Indian expert at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, told the Monitor: “Right now the...