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WASHINGTON: He bowed deeply before the Japan emperor out of respect in a moment captured by the cameras, but did he bend unseen before the Chinese leadership in acknowledgment of the Beijing's growing clout?Blog: Laugh off Obama's comment on China's role in South Asia As President Barack Obama winds up his four-country East Asia tour with a final stop in South Korea on Wednesday before returning to Washington DC in time for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit next week, it's the China leg of his travels that has pundits of all aflutter. The question agitating their minds is whether his engagement with Beijing marked a visible shift in the international power dynamic, with the US openly acquiescing to Chinese influence in the world, with the possible return of a bi-polar world. ( Watch Video In the past few months Japan, Australia, New Zealand among others have bowed to Beijing on various issues. Obama himself postponed meeting the Dalai Lama in Washington DC in deference to Chinese sensitivities. But in Beijing, there was an unmistakable sense that he stooped to concur, that China talked to him not just as an equal, but as an ascendant power.Experts noted that Beijing virtually micro-managed Obama's visit, rejected US pleas on almost every major issue (monetary policy, climate change, human rights etc), and sent him back empty-handed. "US China in strained diplomatic embrace," read the Wall Street Journal headline of the encounter that didn't impress anyone and worried almost everyone.Obama's reference to China's role in South Asia during the joint ''question-less'' presser was not part of the mainstream discussion in Washington DC, but South Asia experts who noted it differed on its significance. ''This is most unhelpful and counterproductive. It will cast a shadow over PM Singh's visit,'' said Ashley Tellis, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.But Teresita Schaffer, director of the South Asia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said she wouldn't give it ''much significance,'' noting that it's the ''kind of ritual statement that we want to work with everyone for peace everywhere.'' Sumit Ganguly, a South Asia scholar at Indiana University described the statement as ''unexceptional and anodyne'' and rejected the idea that it was a throwback to the Clinton presidency, when, soon after the 1998 nuclear tests in the region, the then president invested Beijing with a oversight role in South Asia, provoking much anger in New Delhi.Soon after Obama's remark about China's salience in South Asia (which incidentally were not mentioned by President Hu, who spoke first, and were not noted at all in the US media) was reported in the Indian media though, a state department spokesman remarked that since President Obama will have just gotten back from China by the time Prime Minister Singh arrives here, ''he will share some of his impressions and thoughts about his visit to China as well.''Whether this emollient will truly be applied and whether it is enough to pacify the more tetchy and trenchant China watchers in India remains to be seen, but for now there is a sense in the diplomatic community that while India is a key player in the G-20, the US and China are heading towards a G-2 club. That, says Ganguly, is not something that should upset New Delhi given the enormous financial clout Beijing enjoys vis-a-vis Washington. With $ 800 billion in US treasury bonds, China is Washington's biggest creditor, and is seen as having a virtual stranglehold on the US economy (although it could work both ways).''China's dramatic rise along economic, diplomatic and commercial axes and the US dependence on the PRC necessitates a robust US-PRC relationship,'' Ganguly said. ''if that upsets India then Indians need to start putting their own economic, political and security houses in order rather than fretting about a growing US-PRC relationship.'' That apparently is one of the objectives of Singh's visit to the US. ||||| Days before Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to be welcomed in the White House as the first state visitor hosted by President Obama, two perceived missteps by the Obama administration have Indian officials concerned that New Delhi suddenly has been relegated to the second tier of U.S.-Asian relations. 
  
 Singh arrives Sunday on a four-day trip meant to solidify a relationship transformed under the Bush administration by a nuclear cooperation deal, increasing trade and investment, educational exchanges and unprecedented security collaboration. 
  
 But Indian officials and analysts say two statements by the Obama administration during the president's trip to Asia, which ended this week, have raised concerns that Washington is leaning too closely to China, India's main regional competitor. 
  
 Indian officials note that in a speech on U.S. relations in Asia, Obama did not mention India. Although the speech, delivered in Tokyo, focused on the Asia-Pacific region and not South Asia, Indian officials and analysts said they were concerned that Obama did not recognize India's broader regional aspirations -- something that the Bush administration had encouraged. 
  
 Unease over China's role 
  
  
  
 Indian officials have also raised concerns that in a joint statement issued by the United States and China on Tuesday, Obama appeared to open the door for Beijing to act as a mediator of sorts in the long-term rivalry between India and Pakistan. China and the United States, the statement said, "are ready to strengthen communication, dialogue and cooperation on issues related to South Asia and work together to promote peace, stability and development in that region." 
  
 Since the early 1960s, when China and India fought a border war, China has maintained close ties with Pakistan and, according to a recent Washington Post report, is even said to have supplied Islamabad with a blueprint for a nuclear device and the raw materials to explode one. 
  
 Vishnu Prakash, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in New Delhi, said in response to the joint statement that "a third-country role cannot be envisaged nor is it necessary" to solve the troubles between India and Pakistan. "Obama's China (credit) card casts shadow on PM's US visit," read a headline in the influential Times of India, referring to the $800 billion in U.S. Treasury securities held by China. 
  
 U.S. officials have attempted to tamp down India's concerns. 
  
 "Of course, the United States is interested in pursuing the best and healthiest possible partnership with China, but that does not come at the expense of other increasingly important partnerships, particularly our relationship with India," William J. Burns, undersecretary of state for political affairs, said Wednesday. 
  
 Asked about the joint statement with Beijing, he said it was "a very straightforward expression of that we look to China, we look to India, as many other countries in the world, to contribute to stability in Afghanistan." 
  
 Ashley Tellis, a former State Department official now at the Carnegie Endowment, said he had detected in India "a sense of exclusion that's been gnawing at them since the Tokyo speech." He added: "The joint statement prompted new fears that somehow the United States and China would collude to manage events in South Asia." 
  
 Tellis said this has caused particular neuralgia in India because tensions between Beijing and New Delhi have risen recently over competing border claims. In addition, Indians are concerned that the Obama administration, unlike the Bush administration, views India as part of the South Asian problem, which includes the war in Afghanistan and instability in Pakistan. |||||
President Obama might find Indian PM Manmohan Singh a bit prickly when he arrives in Washington this weekend, after Obama gave India short shrift during his recent Asia trip. Obama didn’t mention India at all in his speech on US relations with Asia, and caused further offense in a joint statement issued with Beijing that implied China could help mediate between India and Pakistan. Beijing has a track record of siding with Pakistan, so a Chinese mediator is the last thing India wants, the Washington Post reports. The nation worries that China’s economic sway over the US may be eroding a relationship nurtured under President Bush: “Obama’s China (credit) card casts shadow on PM’s US visit,” ran a headline in the Times of India today.