At The 18-country East Asia Summit this week in Phnom Penh, Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, found time to update his Twitter feed. He posted a picture of a Cambodian dance troupe performing "Samudra Manthan", or "the churning of the oceans"-an episode from Hindu mythology. Perhaps he liked the reminder of India's deep "civilisational" links with countries to its east. Or perhaps he was struck by the analogy to the present-day tussle for dominance in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific, and in particular, India's emerging naval rivalry with China.
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