China's Next Great Leap

Nov. 16, 2010 - PRLog -- US President Barack Obama visited India in early November, ostensibly to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries, and to capitalize on strategic gains made by the Bush Administration vis-à-vis India's economy and its role in "regional security". The Obama trip made headlines for two very important reasons; one, that the US looks towards India as a growing economy whose demands and requirements may be converted into desperately-needed jobs for a badly-receding American economy; two, that the US President looks favorably on India's candidacy for a permanent United Nations Security Council (UNSC) seat.

Note that it is not yet a governmental or legislative decision of support on part of the United States; it is just a personal assessment of the US President that India should get a permanent seat on the UNSC. The US President also states that Aung San Suu Kyi is one of his heroes, but that alone isn’t going to make the Myanmar junta continue treating Ms. Suu Kyi nicely. Why does President Obama support India in its UNSC pursuits? It may be to satiate different constituencies in America as well as in India – the powerful pro-India lobby in the US Congress, and the important Indian-American constituency that also forms the backbone of India’s NRI-based economic growth, to name a few. It may also be a maneuver to acquire greater strategic importance in India's internal political calculus - regarding nuclear co-operation, the 123 Agreement, Kashmir, trade, and more – because India has always been traditionally close to the USSR/Russia, not to the United States. Or, to look at it in simple terms, President Obama may be buttering up a nation which is about to offer approximately 50,000 jobs – in deals worth US$ 10 billion – to the Americans who are facing the worst unemployment situation since the Great Depression. In addition to this, it has been made abundantly clear (especially by the dominant UFC group in the United Nations) that any reform of the UN Security Council is still a long way from being implemented.

Spearhead Analysis - 16.11.10

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