''The US-Indian axis is working overtime to keep China out of Bay of Bengal''

Clinton takes charge of Mamata

From Indian Punchline
MK Bhadrakumar

"There are huge business opportunities opening up for Big Oil and the American companies in Bangladesh and Myanmar and their vast economic zones in the Bay of Bengal now that the maritime boundary dispute between the two countries has been resolved. Kolkatta is the gateway that connects the Indian market with the El Dorado. 

To be sure, Mamata has a crucial role to play in the US geostrategy, which also happens to be a crucial template of Washington’s ‘containment’ strategy toward China. That is, provided she graduates from being a mofussil politician and mercurial street fighter and intellectually and politically develops what we Indians usually call a ‘vision’. This is a bit like ‘educating Rita’. Clinton is going to give Mamata the first lessons.''

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