uhh playing catch up with the US and China in South Asia. Why did you think Obama and Hu had a communique in regards to South Asia while basicalyl sidestepping India? And India went ballastic with the US' asking China to play a more significant role in S Asia?
$32 billions is still a drop in the bucket. Getting back to the topic here. Japan had all the money in the world, a democracy and one of US closest ally. Yet for all that worth it was enver close to getting a UNSC seat.
Simply put, Japan foreign policy has always look like the US because the...
Ok tell me one place in the world outside of India where India has significant influence.
The Americans are running afghanistan. The Chinese have basically trumped India in Bangledesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Burma.
India is playing catch up in her own neighbourhood.
Japan is still waiting...
I am not talking about the "future". India can be the top dog in 30 years or something instability goes wrong and India can go backwards.
India holds roughly $60 billion in US debt, a spit in the ocean.
Cheap labour is already abadunce in China, Indonesia and soon to be Africa.
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what a waste of money, offensive weapons have always been a tad ahead of defensive weapons. By 2018 there will be more advance missle rendering these missle shields ineffective
The US ignore Japan for the longest time. And only recently they "wanted and nominated" japan for the UNSC because they knwo China will just flat out refuse. Japan had been the 2nd biggest economy for decades.
Why US doesn?t support India?s UNSC seat or ratify the 123 Nuclear Deal? - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh - Zimbio
read this, this guy has some god pointers
The Chinese and American will never fully support India bid for the UNSC. Americans like being the world "police" so anything to dilute their power at the UN will not be welcome. China while right now is not on par with the US in term of hard and soft power, see itself as on par with the US in...