Walter Russell Mead draws attention to the deepening security ties between Japan and India, part of what he describes as “the wider US-Japan-India entente that increasingly shapes the geopolitics of maritime Asia.” Just so long as an angry nationalist in Laos doesn’t assassinate the Chinese vice-premier, we should be fine.
"Angry nationalist in Laos"?
Not to worry, Mark, all the angry Laotian nationalists these days are living in Minnesota or California. (Any residual angry nationalist in Laos itself has long since been rubbed out)
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI'm afraid I was being too clever by half. I was making a parallel to WWI because of Mead's reference to an "entente" and picked Laos to stand in for Serbia as a small country in the south of the continent. I'm not sure there even *are* any angry Laotian nationalists!
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