Where China Meets India: Burma And The New Crossroads Of Asia (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
This is a fantastically insightful book into the recent developments in India and China and their effect on SE Asia, with specific focus on Burma. A few of the travelogue portions feel thin and forced, but fortunately Thant Myint-U doesn't ever linger too long and spends far more time relating the history and current socio-political events of Burma, India, and China. And Thant Myint-U is unbelievably knowledgeable...this book was published 5 years ago, but many of the things he predicted have unfolded exactly as he suggested, and it seems there's more still to come. Enjoyed both this one and river of lost footsteps, but at one point the author briefly mentions the horrific amount of human trafficking (specifically of burmese women) from burma to china as one of the negative aspects of the relationship between the two nations and then continues the list by stating that this enslavement of hundreds of thousands of women 'pales in comparison' to the environmental impact of the same relationship. As if the two are comparable. As if he gets to make the call. Fuck you.
What do You think about Where China Meets India: Burma And The New Crossroads Of Asia (2011)?
Very readable and informative book on Burma history as geographic crossroads.
—krystal
informative but scattered and poorly edited. lack cohesiveness.
—Adwool
