Obama’s mysterious Asian policies seem more conspiratorial than what meets the eye. Is his current silence an omen? Sutanu Guru from India, Shahid Hussain from Pakistan, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, Simon Shen from China, Iran Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and more investigate expected future US policies towards Asia in this issue of B&E
B&E’s Managing Editor Sutanu Guru commentates on why Barack Hussein Obama cannot treat Asia the way his predecessors have done in the past and why the defining moment of his character would be when (and if) he allows Iraqis to vote freely in an election that could perchance even end up electing an anti-American government...
1853: It has been a few centuries since Asia has been on the decline, most of it colonised in one way or other by European nations. British engineers have constructed the first railway tracks in Bombay. But there is one Asian nation that has not been penetrated by any European power. That is the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan. Not for very long though. Commodore Mathew C. Perry of the United States Navy uses superior firepower to literally barge inside Japan. That year marks the beginning of engagement between America and Asia – a tale of hope, betrayal, destruction and renewal. One hundred and fifty one years after Perry’s ‘gunboat’ diplomacy, Barack Obama is poised to deliver hope and renewal instead of betrayal and destruction. His predecessor George Bush had brazenly followed gunboat diplomacy and wrecked American prestige and standing in Asia. But Obama has to realise that the Asia that Bush mishandled is not the Japan of 1853, Philippines of 1898, Japan of 1945, Vietnam of 1968, China of 1973 and Iran and Afghanistan of 1979. The Asian nations that the predecessors of Bush dealt with were colonies, supplicants, allies, stooges, puppets and pawns in the Great Game of Superpower rivalry.
Not any more. Sure, the Colossus still appears formidable. Sure, America has a military (open and discreet) presence in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea and Japan, to name just a few. Sure, financial convulsions in America are sending shock waves through the whole of Asia. Yet, Asia is now fundamentally different.
B&E’s Managing Editor Sutanu Guru commentates on why Barack Hussein Obama cannot treat Asia the way his predecessors have done in the past and why the defining moment of his character would be when (and if) he allows Iraqis to vote freely in an election that could perchance even end up electing an anti-American government...
1853: It has been a few centuries since Asia has been on the decline, most of it colonised in one way or other by European nations. British engineers have constructed the first railway tracks in Bombay. But there is one Asian nation that has not been penetrated by any European power. That is the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan. Not for very long though. Commodore Mathew C. Perry of the United States Navy uses superior firepower to literally barge inside Japan. That year marks the beginning of engagement between America and Asia – a tale of hope, betrayal, destruction and renewal. One hundred and fifty one years after Perry’s ‘gunboat’ diplomacy, Barack Obama is poised to deliver hope and renewal instead of betrayal and destruction. His predecessor George Bush had brazenly followed gunboat diplomacy and wrecked American prestige and standing in Asia. But Obama has to realise that the Asia that Bush mishandled is not the Japan of 1853, Philippines of 1898, Japan of 1945, Vietnam of 1968, China of 1973 and Iran and Afghanistan of 1979. The Asian nations that the predecessors of Bush dealt with were colonies, supplicants, allies, stooges, puppets and pawns in the Great Game of Superpower rivalry.
Not any more. Sure, the Colossus still appears formidable. Sure, America has a military (open and discreet) presence in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea and Japan, to name just a few. Sure, financial convulsions in America are sending shock waves through the whole of Asia. Yet, Asia is now fundamentally different.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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