US Hegemony In The Far East Under Seige

The rise to prominency on the world stage of China and India has implications for the US hegemony in the Far East. Over the past six months, moves and counter moves have been being made by the major players in the region that all were motivated by one factor; the scramble for energy resources. There’s no international etiquette apart from the legislation that prevents war, but US foreign policy which is clearly centered around ’serving the US interests’ is being duplicated by the rapidly developing countries in the East. Manishankar Aiyer, petroleum and natural gas minister of India spoke for the entire region when he put his country’s foreign policy down to anything securing a tangible quantity of energy