[Jeff Head]

They do not have an alliance of the sort invisioned by Farah...but they are getting uncomfortably close with announcements like this:

India and China agree to form Strategic Partnership

...and IMHO, we should be concerned.

[Paul Ross]

You suppose the steel trade, with China sucking up much of India's export trade, is creating any real "entanglement" effect?

I seem to recall that Japan was snapping up all the world's scrap steel and iron...inclusive of the U.S.... before Pearl Harbor. China's sudden import-binge is troubling. Especially with the evidence of a naval-construction program that greatly exceeds what we are told that we can now afford...