First China, Now India: Putin’s Tilt to Asia

President Putin puts on the hard sell in Asia.

By Nick Butler, December 10, 2014 | http://www.theglobalist.com/first-china-now-india-putins-tilt-to-asia/

Takeaways

• When it comes to the much debated tilt to Asia, it seems that President Putin is winning the game.
• Mr. Putin goes to New Delhi not as a leader of a superpower, but as a salesman.
• Putin knows the global energy market better than any Western leader.
• Putin is making energy trade part of much bigger bilateral relationships.
• The US has difficulty accepting that the world as a whole has not become a U.S. sphere of influence.
• Putin has snapped up at least 20% of the Chinese gas market for the next two decades.

When it comes to the much debated and much promised tilt to Asia, it seems that President Vladimir Putin is winning the game. http://www.theglobalist.com/first-china-now-india-putins-tilt-to-asia/