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From: Ram Narayanan
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704608104575221303790430846.html?mod=wsj_india_main
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, MAY 4, 2010
The Axis of Grudging Cooperation
India has tried to prod the U.S. into taking a more active role in shaping Asia's security architecture.
By G. PARTHASARATHY
After meeting the leaders of China, India, Brazil and South Africa at the Copenhagen climate conference in December, U.S. President Barack Obama hailed the deal struck on climate change: "Today we have made a meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough." What he evidently failed to realize was that the summit exposed how flip flops in American foreign policy in Asia had moved India and China into an unexpected embrace at Copenhagen, and beyond.
President Obama appears to be intensely focused on developing a better relationship with China, at almost any cost. During his visit to Beijing in November, he virtually conceded the role of an external security guarantor in South Asia to his hosts. Special Representative Richard Holbrooke thereafter reportedly advised the Chinese to play a more proactive role in expanding their arms transfers to Pakistan. The Obama administration's interest in "reconciliation" with the Taliban and possibilities of a precipitate U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan leading to a return to Taliban control, raised concerns in India about the possibility of a U.S.-China-Pakistan nexus emerging in India's neighborhood.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, MAY 4, 2010
The Axis of Grudging Cooperation
India has tried to prod the U.S. into taking a more active role in shaping Asia's security architecture.
By G. PARTHASARATHY
After meeting the leaders of China, India, Brazil and South Africa at the Copenhagen climate conference in December, U.S. President Barack Obama hailed the deal struck on climate change: "Today we have made a meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough." What he evidently failed to realize was that the summit exposed how flip flops in American foreign policy in Asia had moved India and China into an unexpected embrace at Copenhagen, and beyond.
President Obama appears to be intensely focused on developing a better relationship with China, at almost any cost. During his visit to Beijing in November, he virtually conceded the role of an external security guarantor in South Asia to his hosts. Special Representative Richard Holbrooke thereafter reportedly advised the Chinese to play a more proactive role in expanding their arms transfers to Pakistan. The Obama administration's interest in "reconciliation" with the Taliban and possibilities of a precipitate U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan leading to a return to Taliban control, raised concerns in India about the possibility of a U.S.-China-Pakistan nexus emerging in India's neighborhood.
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I don't know if you still support this Tharoor guy. Just saw this article:
Tharoor was sacked earlier this week not because he had claimed a £600 a month mortgage payment on a house he already owned but because his girlfriend was given a $15 million share in a new Twenty-20 cricket team he was representing. Fifteen million dollars!
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