From: Sanjeev N
India has been trying to get closer to the U.S. but the strategic gains for India are not visible. The U.S. is obsessed with Pakistan and China's economic power seems to prevent the U.S. from being more assertive as Clinton's recent visit to China has shown.
India and Japan must work closely on all fronts there is no doubt about that. GOI needs to stop being obsessed with Pakistan, peace is neccessary for our economic progress! Rgds sanjeev
China pushes Japan and India closer to the U.S.
Brahma Chellaney http://chellaney.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!4913C7C8A2EA4A30!1209.entry
The Sunday Guardian, May 30, 2010
China's rise in one generation as a global player under authoritarian rule has come to epitomize the qualitative reordering of power in Asia and the wider world. Not since Japan rose to world-power status during the reign of the Meiji emperor in the second half of the 19th century has another non-Western power emerged with such potential to alter the world order as China today. As the 2009 assessment by the U.S. intelligence community predicted, China stands to more profoundly affect global geopolitics than any other country. China's ascent, however, is dividing Asia, not bringing Asian states closer.
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India needs to be prepared to fight a 4 front war if need be, though I see China desiring less the physical acquisition of much Indian territory, more the psychological domination. Regardless, they have grabbed land not theirs (Starting with Tibet), and India should include them in the 4 front along with Pakistan, Bangladesh (any country with such a large Muslim population may always wish to wage war on the polytheists), and internal counterinsurgencies against Muslim, Christists, Maoists (~Christists). Counterinsurgency forces should be just as strong, if not even stronger, than the border forces.
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