The Hindu is India's third largest English language newspaper. It was the first newspaper in India to introduce an on-line edition. I find it an interesting read because it offers an non-Eurocentric, non-Amerocentric perspective on world events.
Take this story about China's navy holding joint exercises with Pakistan's navy. What's interesting is the casual mention of China's cooperation with both Pakistan and India, two countries invariably portrayed as regional rivals in Western media.
While they may be rivals, neither have any qualms about coordinating their military activities with China.
The passing reference to Chinese cooperation with Japan is also telling. In Western media China-Japan relations have recently been portrayed as having deteriorated to the point that they are on the brink of open warfare.
And how often do you read in Western media that China has a policy of having no military bases outside of China?
The US has over a thousand.
Most telling of all, in a nine paragraph story about Chinese Navy exercises off the coasts of some of America's most dependent client states and supposedly "most dangerous" enemies, there is not a single reference to the US.
Something to ponder.
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