{"id":180629,"date":"2025-09-05T09:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=180629"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:43:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:43:58","slug":"the-bear-remains-a-bear-putin-on-russias-role-in-partnership-with-india-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/180629\/","title":{"rendered":"The bear remains a bear: Putin on Russia\u2019s role in partnership with India and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed Russia&rsquo;s role in relations with India and China during the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, responding to a question on whether this could be seen as a &ldquo;new alliance of the elephant, the dragon, and the bear.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The bear remains a bear. The bear is Russia&rsquo;s symbol, but the world&rsquo;s largest tiger is also Russian. Our economies complement each other; we share common interests and traditional values &mdash; I would like to emphasize that,&rdquo; Putin said.<\/p>\n<p>He also commented on the remark that Russia&rsquo;s main emblem, the double-headed eagle, now seems to be looking eastward with both heads.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There is also the South. Our cooperation, its expansion, and our joint work with partners in the Asia-Pacific region and the Global South are not linked to the current political situation at all,&rdquo; Putin stated.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed Russia&rsquo;s role in relations with India and China during the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, responding to a question on whether this could be seen as a &ldquo;new alliance of the elephant, the dragon, and the bear.&rdquo; &ldquo;The bear remains a bear. The bear is Russia&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":180560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180630,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180629\/revisions\/180630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}