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International Relations

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Consider the following pairs, matching instruments/doctrines relevant to the India–US–Russia energy and strategic relationship with their correct descriptions:

Pairs

  1. CAATSA (Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act) — US legislation primarily authorising secondary sanctions on countries conducting significant transactions with Russia's energy export sector
  2. Secondary sanctions — Penalties imposed by the United States on third-country entities that trade with a sanctioned state, rather than on the sanctioned state itself
  3. Strategic autonomy — India's foreign policy doctrine of maintaining independent sourcing and partnership decisions without exclusive alignment with any single power bloc

Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

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