Asian Ascendency continued

An article in The Australian discusses India's reaction to China's rise and its threat to India.  More argument to the idea that China is surrounded by powerful rivals.

Our Allies during the Reign of the Empty Suit

Whether a deliberate policy or not, it is clear that the Obama administration is not interested in defending Western culture or maintaining relationships with our 'natural' allies. I use the term 'natural' to mean Western-style democracies, not exclusively nations we have long-standing friendships with. In this article, the second of a continuing series, we track the decisions and actions of our erstwhile allies whilst our president spends his time sucking up to dictators. I think we'll spend time tracking the two 'I's quite a bit. Of course I mean India and Israel. I think we'll be tracking them for a few reasons. Primarily, they are the two western-style democracies that are on the front line against militant Islam. Secondly, they are fairly recent products of Western Imperialism, in particular of the British Empire. Thirdly, and this probably tied to the second reason, they are successful democracies surrounded by a world of dictatorships, true monarchies, and anarchy.

Anyway, in our second article on this subject since this blog's creation (still the month of April!) we see another example of Indo-Israeli cooperation: India launches an Israeli-designed spy satellite. Its purpose is to monitor Pakistan mostly. I wonder what Israel gets out of the deal...? Surveillance of Iran...? Landing field for bombers after a long flight to Iran...?