Central Asia: The Great Game revived

politics > imperial > competitive
Ed Blanche, a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, writes about "the recent emergence of an evolving alliance between Russia, China and India, all nuclear powers, all grappling with Islamic extremism and all deeply concerned about the unilateralism of the United States and its doctrine of pre-emption", and how this is playing out in the geostrategic battlefields and oilfields of Central Asia.