Monday linkage

• A quick search of GOP presidential nomination front-runner Mitt Romney's foreign policy White Paper reveals 0 references to Australia.
• India's National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon on the role of military forces in international relations. (H/t GD.)
• Boston Consulting says manufacturing jobs will return to the US as Chinese labour costs rise.
• '...the car that was meant to be India's answer to the Volkswagen Beetle looks a lot more like Ford's unfortunate Edsel.'
• Gideon Rachman talks to Dutch decision-makers about the Euro crisis:

...the big political gainers in this situation are the extreme Right and the extreme Left – both of which voted against the expansion of the bail-out fund in parliament yesterday. Some of those around the table thought it highly likely that the next Dutch election will see the hard-right Party of Freedom, led by Geert Wilders, becoming the largest party in parliament – although it would probably still be prevented from taking a leading role in government. One Dutch commentator says that Wilders’s policies these days are a sort-of “welfare-state chauvinism” – protect the benefits of the Dutch welfare state by refusing to support immigrants or southern Europeans. There was also a feeling last night that the rise of the political extremes will not just be a Dutch phenomenon. One prominent business-person said that his French counterparts are seriously talking about the possibility of a Marine Le Pen presidency in France.