Where China Meets India: Burma And The New Crossroads of Asia, by Thant Myint-U

Faber and Faber, £20. Kindle £9.36

OVER the last decade western economic leaders have spent much time looking over their shoulders at China and India, the two emerging superpowers that seem set to rival the US and Japan for the world’s biggest economies.

Much has been written about the effect this power grab will have on the west, but less on the impact on other Asian nations.