I have been working with Pathfinder Foundation for a while. Their focus is economics, so it was good fit. Now they are getting into Track 2, with China as well as India. The track 2 with India involves the Vivekananda International Foundation, the Modi Think Tank, which has a strong focus on strategic affairs. I am therefore being asked to speak on infrastructure issues to Chinese as well India strategic affairs people, which I find quite interesting.
For example, in the course of the work on APIS, Abu Saeed Khan and I found that China Mobile had joined the SEA-ME-WE 5 consortium and had built a cable to plug in to SEA ME WE 5 and AAE-1. Understanding China’s desire to bypass the Malacca chokepoint in important for guys who focus on strategy.
So I say stuff like that.
The slides I used today are here.
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