Dhaka, Jan. 31 -- President Xi Jinping has just concluded a two-day visit to Myanmar. The event will have enormous regional, indeed, global implications. It reflected a very assertive side of China's foreign policy, bending all actions to an ultimate geo-strategic objective. In this case, the objective was obviously to buttress the Road and Belt Initiative (RBI), the cornerstone of China's foreign policy. There were three components of this objective contained in this particular trip. One was the gaining of China's access to the Indian Ocean. A second was the embrace of Myanmar into the Chinese fold after generations of diplomacy that were fraught and third, a step forward towards consolidating Chinese power in India's periphery. Xi did n...