Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier

While much of the world focuses on the competition between China and the United States (and Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam) in the East China Sea and South China Sea, another geopolitical struggle of equal importance is continuing and escalating in South Asia and the Indian Ocean involving India, China, and the U.S. At the geographical center of this latter struggle is the country of Myanmar, situated between India's northeastern states, Bangladesh, southwestern China and Southeast Asia, bordering the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. It is in that region, writes Bertil Lintner in his new book Great Game East, that "21st century Asia's most serious superpower rivalry" will likely play out.