The author makes several valid points with respect to China. While these are true India risks being a fringe player in the great power game in Eurasia. More then China it is Russia that we have to be wary of. The once trusted friend has rapidly changed stripes, from refusing to support our permanent security council seat to engaging actively with both china and Pakistan, the signs are clear. Note the Russian interest in the Iran-Pak-India pipeline and the American style pairing of India and Pakistan in one visit by the Russian foreign minister. That said there is no doubt that China will continue to suffocate us strategically. India's imaginative foreign policy can only revolve around traditional chinese adversaries like Vietnam through a strong presence in the Indian Ocean. But given the mess that India is in, the only way out for us, a very radical remedy is to undo the 1947 partition. Difficult as it sounds, it is not impossible and if it were to happen would not only alter S.Asian geopolitics, but the global balance of power.
