Jaswant Singh

Re­alpoli­tik, eco­nom­ic in­ter­ests, ideals and the quest for free­dom will shape the great game play­ing out in Myan­mar.

As Oba­ma vows to move the US’ fo­cus East, pow­er­ful na­tions be­gin to stake out their ter­ri­to­ry in the re­gion.

In­dia and the US have di­rect, yet dif­fer­ent, in­ter­ests in restor­ing peace and or­der to the re­gion­al neigh­bour­hood.

Ten­sions are grow­ing in the South Chi­na sea, where In­dia, Chi­na and oth­er coun­tries have spared over drilling rights.

In­dia’s na­tion­hood has been weak­ened since the anti-cor­rup­tion protests took place, and it must now re­shape it­self.

De­spite their re­cent suc­cess, Chi­na and In­dia may soon face some eco­nom­ic dif­fi­cul­ties.

De­spite Osama’s elim­i­na­tion by US com­man­dos, the US has a unique op­por­tu­ni­ty to cor­rect the bal­ance in the re­gion.

In­dia must deal with its in­creas­ing en­er­gy de­mands whilst also recog­nis­ing the post-Fukushi­ma “pan­ic trans­fer­ence”.

In­dia’s for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter says “dy­nas­ti­cism” played a lead­ing role in fos­ter­ing cul­ture of po­lit­i­cal cor­rup­tion.

In­dia’s for­mer for­eign min­is­ter hopes mil­i­tary rule in Egypt will only be a tem­po­rary mea­sure.