China Reform Monitor 1356
An impatient Beijing eyes east China sea energy;
The downside of China's "nationalist bubble"
Penalizing China's veterans;
China moves against $15 billion "pyramid scheme";
Beijing profits from detainee labor
Want these sent to your inbox?
Subscribe
Publications
Russia Reform Monitor No. 2284
Papering over Stalin's reforms;
Getting serious about statistics;
Moscow invests in hypersonics;
A Kremlin "enemies list";
Ling live the Tsar
Putin's latest political prisoner
Iran Democracy Monitor
Tehran doubles down on Palestinian "resistance";
Iran's deepening economic doldrums;
A standoff over the strait...;
...and coordination in the Caspian;
Renewed doubts surround Rafsanjani's death
Russia: Expect a National AI Roadmap by Midyear
Moscow is starting to put financial and logistical muscle behind its efforts to develop artificial intelligence.
Russia Building Out Nuclear Capabilities in Its Fleet
During the Cold War two of Russia’s four fleets were nuclear ones, the Northern Fleet based out of Murmansk in the Kola Peninsula in the Arctic, and the Pacific Fleet based out of Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk.
Most analysts have maintained that this disposition has remained the case until now.
But can we be certain of that?