my question is directed to ambassador blackwill. the one country that you didn't touch on yet that i would be curious about is the perspective from new delhi. this presents a relationship between china and russia and the conflict of the united states presents india with some interesting challenges and opportunities which they spent the last 70 years trying to navigate. right now, it is both more interesting and more challenging. curious to see where you see new delhi vis-a-vis what it is doing with china, russia and then balancing with the u.s. thank you. robert: good question and one that is worthy of a prolonged discussion. of course, now, india tries to profit from, in material terms, too, with its relationship with both washington and moscow. that is not going to change. just to remind, the soviet union was india's closest partner and supporter throughout the cold war. unlike americans, indians have very long memories. moreover, they are highly dependent on the russians for spare parts for their military. with respect to china,

my question is directed to ambassador blackwill. the one country that you didn't touch on yet that i would be curious about is the perspective from new delhi. this presents a relationship between china and russia and the conflict of the united states presents india with some interesting challenges and opportunities which they spent the last 70 years trying to navigate. right now, it is both more interesting and more challenging. curious to see where you see new delhi vis-a-vis what it is doing with china, russia and then balancing with the u.s. thank you. robert: good question and one that is worthy of a prolonged discussion. of course, now, india tries to profit from, in material terms, too, with its relationship with both washington and moscow. that is not going to change. just to remind, the soviet union was india's closest partner and supporter throughout the cold war. unlike americans, indians have very long memories. moreover, they are highly dependent on the russians for spare parts for their military. with respect to china,

bay: thank you so much, richard, ambassador blackwill. thank you all for joining this meeting. i hope you can all stay and join us for our ple at 10: 30. global discussions on the china-russian relationship. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> good morning, everybody. welcome back. we are excited to begin our next session. during the session we have convened senior fellows at cfr to reflect on the china-russian relationship and its implications around the world. i will introduce our distant was penniless in a moment. i will ask some general questions and then go into specific questions for each region before turning over to the audience in the room and online. starting from my left we have shannon o'neill, our senior vice president, director of studies, our chair at cfr, in addition to leading our david rockefeller's program, oversees over 14 fellowship programs. when she is not putting out fires at cfr or jo