Four Eyes Meets Five Eyes

As a child, I was called Four- Eyes, because of my Coca Cola bottle bottom glasses. Interestingly, there exists a secret alliance of intelligence services with an additional eye, it is called Five-Eyes. Hindu blogger Bhadrakumar writes that ex-CIA Director Pompeo has drawn India into a new ginger group of foreign ministers. This nascent group includes the foreign ministers of Israel, Japan and South Korea. Now, these 3 countries (plus Singapore) also happen to be “third-party contributors” to the Five Eyes — associate members who have been caught or are suspected of exchanging information with the Fourteen Eyes Alliance. The group may be visualized as the hard core of the West. Modi's Pivot toward America means aligning India with the West. I wonder if the out-of-the-box brainstorming sessions of the group are discussing how to divide up China. If Shanghai becomes international once more, it would be nice to have one old neighborhood re-assigned to us. I like China and the Chinese.