Discuss the Russia-Ukraine war, its pandemic and present US-China fight for supremacy and their implications for India.

China's abstaining to vote against Russia shows multiple intents of support to Russia and a hit on NATO. 6) West being busy with China-Russia relations, China to capitalise on global markets by deep penetration into supply chain. Ex: Australia joined RCEP despite having at hot to formulate relation with China. 7) Asia which is considered the new current powerhouse of global growth is almost captured by Chinese well expanding presence in Africa also. All this in the backdrop of growing China-Russia axis. Hence the global balance of power is going to see some interesting entities in the coming decades with Chinese assertion, in 3 of the 7 continents.