South Asia Security Monitor: No. 319
India and the Chinese border incursion;
Indian spy killed in Pakistani jail;
India, Japan, U.S. hold trilateral dialogue
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South Asia and the Obama Doctrine
There has been much talk about the “pivot to Asia” as if it is something novel or new. In truth, however, U.S. foreign policy has been engaged in a pivot to Asia ever since Commodore Perry sailed under orders given to him by President Millard Fillmore in 1853 to open up Japan. Missing in the current approach, however, has been discussion about South Asia, except when South Asian states (namely Pakistan, India, Nepal, and Bangladesh) intersect with issues related to Central Asia and the war in Afghanistan.