Indians see the US as the biggest military threat after China and blame NATO and Washington more than they do Putin for his war in Ukraine, according to a new survey.
About 43% of 1,000 respondents consider China – a country with which India has a long-running border dispute and where tensions have flared again since 2020 – as the biggest threat, according to a Morning Consult survey. , a global business intelligence company based in the United States. .
Still, 22% see the US as the second-biggest security threat, after Pakistan, the survey found.
“While the world’s two largest democracies appear to be natural partners, especially given their mutual distrust of China, Indians have strategic reasons to be wary of the superpower. West of the world,” said Sonnet Frisbie and Scott Moskowitz, who oversaw the published survey. on Tuesday. “As tensions between Washington and Beijing increase, the Indian public may worry about getting caught up in the US-China conflict destabilizing regional security, putting India at risk.”
Concerns reflected in the survey — conducted October 14-15 — about risks from Washington persist despite the South Asian nation’s closer partnership with the United States, Australia and Japan — aka the Quad, a group of democracies formed to counter Beijing’s economic and military policies. ambitious.
India remains neutral on Russia’s war in Ukraine despite pressure from its Quad partners – refraining from UN censored vote, while also pressing for a diplomatic solution to ease the crisis. food and fertilizer crisis caused by the crisis. It has also continued to snap up cheap Russian oil.
The poll shows that 60% of respondents want the government to continue buying oil from Russia and 48% of them think Russia should continue to be India’s preferred supplier of military equipment, compared to 44% for the US. About 49 percent also want Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to continue military exercises with the country.
An increasing number of Indians blame the US and NATO for the war because of the “historic relationship with Russia that was formed during the Cold War and during the Cold War,” said Shumita Deveshwar, senior director of Indian studies at TS Lombard. India’s post-independence period is deeper than India’s relatively new relationship with the United States. . Russia as the main supplier of cheap weapons and oil to India is also “ingrained in people’s minds and that takes more time to change”.
New Delhi and Moscow have a longstanding relationship that spans areas such as defense and security. India is the world’s biggest buyer of Russian weapons, and Asia’s second-biggest importer of oil has helped the Kremlin maintain exports as it copes with Western sanctions.
About 43% of 1,000 respondents consider China – a country with which India has a long-running border dispute and where tensions have flared again since 2020 – as the biggest threat, according to a Morning Consult survey. , a global business intelligence company based in the United States. .
Still, 22% see the US as the second-biggest security threat, after Pakistan, the survey found.
“While the world’s two largest democracies appear to be natural partners, especially given their mutual distrust of China, Indians have strategic reasons to be wary of the superpower. West of the world,” said Sonnet Frisbie and Scott Moskowitz, who oversaw the published survey. on Tuesday. “As tensions between Washington and Beijing increase, the Indian public may worry about getting caught up in the US-China conflict destabilizing regional security, putting India at risk.”
Concerns reflected in the survey — conducted October 14-15 — about risks from Washington persist despite the South Asian nation’s closer partnership with the United States, Australia and Japan — aka the Quad, a group of democracies formed to counter Beijing’s economic and military policies. ambitious.
India remains neutral on Russia’s war in Ukraine despite pressure from its Quad partners – refraining from UN censored vote, while also pressing for a diplomatic solution to ease the crisis. food and fertilizer crisis caused by the crisis. It has also continued to snap up cheap Russian oil.
The poll shows that 60% of respondents want the government to continue buying oil from Russia and 48% of them think Russia should continue to be India’s preferred supplier of military equipment, compared to 44% for the US. About 49 percent also want Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to continue military exercises with the country.
An increasing number of Indians blame the US and NATO for the war because of the “historic relationship with Russia that was formed during the Cold War and during the Cold War,” said Shumita Deveshwar, senior director of Indian studies at TS Lombard. India’s post-independence period is deeper than India’s relatively new relationship with the United States. . Russia as the main supplier of cheap weapons and oil to India is also “ingrained in people’s minds and that takes more time to change”.
New Delhi and Moscow have a longstanding relationship that spans areas such as defense and security. India is the world’s biggest buyer of Russian weapons, and Asia’s second-biggest importer of oil has helped the Kremlin maintain exports as it copes with Western sanctions.
