As the curtains came down today in Dhaka on the 13th SAARC summit, the event will be remembered only for the extraordinary demonstration of China’s new political clout in the sub-continent.
It was a long time coming. But when it did in Dhaka over the weekend, China’s diplomatic big bang left in tatters India’s long-standing claim of an exclusive sphere of influence in the sub-continent.
That Nepal’s King Gyanendra could hold up the consensus at the summit on Afghanistan’s membership for two days by linking it to China’s request for an association with the SAARC, heralds a new paradigm in the sub-continent’s geopolitics.
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