As the Obama Administration pushed for an integrated trade landscape in Asia, a top US official said that the political transition in Myanmar provides a vital opportunity to connect regions of South Asia and India is well placed to benefit from this development.

“When (US) President (Barack) Obama talks about the rebalance to Asia, this is fundamentally the vision that he’s talking about, the vision of an Asian landscape that is bound together in trade and commerce, a vision of an integrated trade landscape,” Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal said. more…