When Giants Ally: The India-China-Russia Axis and its Challenge to America

When giants ally, the world listens. A new axis of global giants—India, China, and Russia—has formed with the explicit goal of challenging the US-led world order. Their powerful show of unity at the recent SCO summit was a clear signal that a “new world order” is not just a possibility, but an active project.
The formation of this axis should be a wake-up call for the United States, according to analyst Van Jones. He described the development as a “historically big deal,” seeing the partnership of Modi, Xi, and Putin as a coordinated strategy to replace the unipolar world with a multipolar one. This is the most significant challenge to American power in a generation.
The foundation of this alliance is a mutual and intensifying frustration with US foreign and economic policy. Washington’s strategy of employing tariffs as a coercive tool has been the single most important factor in uniting these otherwise disparate powers. Their shared objective is to create a more balanced global system, free from American unilateralism.
This has left the United States in a strategically precarious position. Jones concludes that America has been outmaneuvered, finding itself isolated and on the “bad side of the triangle.” The nation now faces a world where its primary challengers are united against it, a dangerous and unfavorable reversal of its long-held global dominance.