Description:The northeast state of Manipur was meant to be the cornerstone of India's Look East policy to link India with its Asian neighbours. But the government's failure to seize the initiative has left the region lagging in the doldrums and unable to cash in on Myanmar's re-emergence from isolation. The winner so far in the race to make the most of one of Asia's great historic crossroads is China. India's northeast region has been something of an anomaly since independence from Britain in 1947.(2:33)