ASEAN struggles with response to Burma coup;
Indonesia's new "tank boat";
Tokyo plans to shatter defense spending ceiling;
China's infrastructure outreach to the Pacific Islands;
Manila rejects Beijing's unilateral fishing moratorium
Khodorkovsky group leaves Russia;
Putin meets with an embattled Lukashenko;
Russia spies on U.S. missile defense test;
Russian espionage a casualty of Czech spat;
Bolstering strength on western borders
Whatever the future holds for one of America’s most complicated bilateral relationships, better that Biden try and shape Erdogan’s foreign policy forays to America’s advantage, rather than refight old battles.
Chinese fake news targets Taiwan;
Moscow takes aim at U.S. broadcasting...;
...and foreign vaccines;
Rethinking "wolf warrior diplomacy"?
For most of the world, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre recalls familiar yet macabre vignettes of hopeful students and the iron tanks that crushed them, along with their cries for freedom. In China, however, there is nothing to recall on June 4th because, as far as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is concerned, nothing happened.