The coming annual G20 summit to be held in the Japanese city of Osaka late this month, will see the third trilateral summit of China, India and Russia. The first one was 13 years ago and the second was on the sidelines of last year's annual G20 summit in Argentina.
The second trilateral meet among India, Russia and China came after a gap of 12 years, on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Argentina, December 2018, to discuss cooperation in various areas. (Twitter/MEA)
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There could be only two aims which they would like to achieve with this idea. First, the three want to unite their standpoint and coordinate their actions at G20 in order to defend their core interests in all issues debated at G20. All three have been recently confronted with troubles caused to them by the US, especially on trade. They all have to face with the US's strategic competition in all fields of their bilateral relations with the US. If united, they could become a very powerful force against the US at G20. Together, it would be easier for them to succeed in not letting the US by using its political influence and economic as well as trade might manipulate the group of 20 and this multilateral forum for pursuing its policies which would be good for the US but not for them.
Second, with their common standpoint on promoting multilateralism and free trade, on fighting unilateralism and protectionism, power policy and hegemonism, they aim at isolating the US and divide the US and other members of G20. In doing so, they could transform their trilateral format in a factor capable of securing and enhancing the role and influence of G20 in today's world despite destructive participation of the US.
This year in Osaka, it will still be another summit of China, India and Russia on the sidelines of G20. But next year, there could already be an institutionalized trilateral format of them at this multilateral forum. It would be rather good than bad for G20.
