Independent-or not?

摘要

"Signal left but turn right," was how one Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, famously described manoeuvring from the Soviet into the American camp in the 1970s. Is Egypt's new president, Muhammad Morsi, contemplating a similar pirouette? The Muslim Brotherhood's winning candidate inherited a country that has been closely allied to America since Mr Sadat's day. Yet for his first foreign tour beyond Egypt's immediate region, he has chosen to visit not Washington, dc, but the capitals of China and Iran.