U.S. missile defense: deliberately minimalist?; Chinese missile capabilities changing Pentagon's Asian calculus; More Aegist ships on the horizon; The PRC plans for conflict in space; Rethinking missile defense in Japan

SECDEF: China focused on “narrowing strategic options” of U.S.; China in $16 billion oil deal with Venezuela

Reinforcing Russia's take on history;
Second thoughts in Abkhazia

Sweetening the pot for Pyongyang;
Are energy wars in Russia's future?

Chinese progress on Beidou satellite system; Moscow and Beijing closing the gap on Jiangsu pipeline

Moscow outmaneuvers the U.S. in Central Asia;
Race for the Arctic heats up

"Serious operational glitches" in Chinese satellite bound for Caracas;
Jobless factory workers return home, find corruption and abuse

U.S. report warns of China's "disturbing" military growth;
Liberal Chinese newsmagazine refuses to be censored

China's space program and U.S. security; GMD gathers steam; Moscow plans new missiles...; ...while plans for the "third site" waver; Japan soldiers on

India taking measures to "cope with China's rise";
China expands space ties with Moscow, nuclear ties with Astana