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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Robert D Kaplan, Obama Takes Asia by Sea; China, not on the itinerary, is
the realtarget of the trip. New York Times, Nov. 12, 2010 (title in the
print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/opinion/12kaplan.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=kaplan%20india&st=cse
My comment:
(a) I started paying attention to Mr Kaplan the past January, when he wrote
about geopolitics of South Asia.
(b) diversionary (adj): "tending to draw attention away from the principal
concern : being a diversion" www.m-w.com
(c) The term "hydrocarbon interstate": hydrocarbon alluding to petroleum
moving from Middle East; interstate is an American shorthand for interstate
highways.
(d) For Harappans, see Indus Valley Civilization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilization
(a Bronze Age civilization (3300–1300 BCE); flourished around the Indus
River basin; The mature phase of this civilization is known as the Harappan
Civilization, as the first of its cities to be unearthed was the one at
Harappa, excavated in the 1920s in what was at the time the Punjab province
of British India (now in Pakistan))
* Indus River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_River
(originates in Tibet, where the river is named in Wylie transliteration of
Tibetan language as Sênggê Zangbo "Lion River"--thus Chinese: 森格藏布/狮
泉河/印度河; flooded in 2010)
Section 2 History: "The name Indus is used in Arrian's Indica for the mighty
river crossed by Alexander, based on Nearchus's contemporaneous account. '
Indus' is a Hellenic derivative of the Iranian Hindu, in turn derived from
Sindhu, the name of the Indus in the Rigveda[, an ancient Indian sacred
collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns]. The Sanskrit Sindhu generically means
river, stream, ocean, probably from a root sidh meaning to keep off.
(e) Mughal Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_Empire
(Mogul (also Moghul) Empire in former English usage; was an Indian imperial
power that ruled a large portion of the Indian subcontinent. It began in
1526, invaded and ruled most of South Asia by the late 17th and early 18th
centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century; The name Mughal is derived
from the original homelands of the Timurids, the Central Asian steppes)
(f) Wahhabi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabi
(a Sunni Islamic sect based on the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab,
an 18th century scholar from what is today known as Saudi Arabia, who
advocated purging Islam of what he considered impurities. Wahhabism is the
dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia)
(g) Nicholas J. Spykman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_J._Spykman
(1893-1943; section 1 Spykman's Geostrategy--subsection 2 Rimland) |
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