India losing the gas war

Just as Indian Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar was about to jet off to Beijing, the Myanmar generals announced that gas would not be flowing north and west. It would instead go east – to China, to Kunming. Nine years of planning went up in smoke, in an instant. This cannot be brushed off as an incidental hiccup. This has very serious ramifications.

India is hungry for gas. Demand is set to increase fivefold within 15 years.