A New 'New World Order'

A couple of weeks ago, I commented on Mark Steyn's Telegraph piece, in which he argued that the 21st century might just see the continued dominance of the Anglosphere with India playing an increasingly prominent role. Yesterday, Michael Barone picked up the thread in "An Emerging Alliance with India." In it, Barone claims that though "there is not likely to be a formal NATO-like alliance among Japan, Australia, India, and the United States... increasingly there is the functional equivalent of one."

All I will add is that to me, it really does seem as though we are witnessing the creation of a new New World Order, with the axis of global power shifting from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to the Pacific and Indian. More than five hundred years after arriving in the new world, Columbus, or at least his American surrogates, have finally made it to India -- bearing a share of their international might. In the process, the old world seems to have been left behind.