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Asian Games

Historynet’s Judith Klinghoffer, Indiablogging, rounds up recent tension-boosters in and around the neighborhood and gets a bad 1914 feel off it.  

Everybody knows someone, Pak-based terrorists being at the top of the suspect list, firebombed the “Friendship Train” from New Delhi to Lahore the other day, and the Paks went ahead with a missile test the next day.

Did you know the Indian Air Force is setting up operations in Tajikistan, as part of a trilateral agreement with T’stan and Russia aimed at any potential Pak-Afghan threat?   Fascinating.

Klinghoffer outlines India’s concerns about trouble out of Chinese-backed Myanmar, Teheran-Beijing friendship, Islamo-plagued Thailand’s issues with Myanmar and where we and China figure into that. India of course has ongoing border issues with China, which is friendly with Pakistan, and the New Delhi-Beijing hotline that was set up is not necessarily a sign of friendship any more than the Washington-Moscow one was.

Topics: China, india

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:42 am on Monday, February 26, 2007

2 Responses to “Asian Games”

1. saltydog Says:
   February 26th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

   Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

2. RebeccaH Says:
   February 26th, 2007 at 4:38 pm

   Oops. I already commented on India and Pakistan in another thread, but let me just say again, I think that all out nuclear war is more likely to start in this area of the world than any other place.

   (I really need to start reading this posts in sequence)

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