Thant Myint-U'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 vanish--the forests cut down,
dirt roads replaced by superhighways, insurgencies crushed--leaving
China and India exposed to each other as never before. This basic
shift in geography--as sudden and profound as the opening of the
Suez Canal--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 Asia'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
region's long and rich history and its sudden significance for the
rest of the world.
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