Last Wednesday, the foreign ministers of China, Russia and India held a meeting in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin. This was the first time that the trilateral forum had taken place in China. In the joint communiqué issued afterwards, it was emphasized that trilateral cooperation among the three “is not targeted against any other country or organization.” On the same day, People’s Daily and Liberation Daily ran the exact same article titled “Who says India is being lured into the ‘NATO family’ that the U.S. and Japan are attempting to construct?” It begins: