Thant Myint-U

  ,Thant Myint-U,â€™s ,Where China Meets India ,is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world. ,From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable jungle, by hostile tribes and remote inland kingdoms stretching a thousand miles from Calcutta across Burma to the upper Yangtze River. ,Soon this last great frontier will vanishâ€”the forests cut down, dirt roads replaced by superhighways, insurgencies crushedâ€”leaving China and India exposed to each other as never before. This basic shift in geographyâ€”as sudden and profound as the opening of the Suez Canalâ€”will lead to unprecedented connections among the three billion people of Southeast Asia and the Far East. ,What will this change mean? Thant Myint-U is in a unique position to know. Over the past few years he has traveled extensively across this vast territory, where high-speed trains and gleaming new shopping malls are now coming within striking distance of the last far-flung rebellions and impoverished mountain communities. And he has explored the new strategic centrality of Burma, where Asiaâ€™s two rising, giant powers appear to be vying for supremacy. ,At once a travelogue, a work of history, and an informed look into the future, ,Where China Meets India ,takes us across the fast-changing Asian frontier, giving us a masterful account of the regionâ€™s long and rich history and its sudden significance for the rest of the world. ,

Nonfiction,History,Cultural,Asia,Cultural,China,Cultural,India,Travel,Politics,Political Science,International Relations,Economics,Literature,21st Century
Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia