India, Sept. 13 -- Moscow will play this 'balancing game with New Delhi and Beijing' in the current era, which many international affairs faculty and strategic affairs experts call 'Cold War 2'.

The trilateral talks involving the Foreign Ministers of India, Russia and China have triggered an "unreasonable hope" in a section of Indian media and some "over-enthusiastic" analysts, who are foreseeing "New Delhi getting into Moscow's strategic plans". Some even feel that Russian President Vladimir Putin may influence the Beijing leadership, for the closeness he boasts with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, asking the latter "to resolve the Ladakh stand-off and maintain status-quo on the Line of Actual Control," in a way a "virtual" victor...