Saturday, January 22, 2011

Washington expresses 'grave concern' over war crime trial

GEOPOLITICS UNDER TRANSFORMATION

by M. Shahidul Islam, Friday January 21;Weekly Holiday

Within years of being catapulted as a pre-eminent regional power, India is on the verge of losing its wind-fallen clout due to some new variables having intervened to re-structure the South Asian geopolitical landscape.
Consequently, the AL-led coalition govt. is under intense pressure to change courses in domestic and international policy pursuance.
The prime mover of this geopolitical shift is the US President Barack Obama, who seems to have re-set his focus on working with China more closely, seemingly at the cost of India, in a desperate bid to retrieve the US's and the global economy from a grinding stagnation that has begun to spark Tunisia-type upheavals in many countries.
The increased Washington-Beijing intimacy has also been necessitated by factors such as dealing with North Korea and Iran, the two nations inexorably moving toward military-nuclearization and, over which Beijing wields enormous influence.
Besides, Beijing's recent decision to trade with Russia using their respective currencies-which further reduced demand on US dollar - has become a major concern in Washington.