China Reform Monitor: No. 1265
Violence flares again on China-Myanmar border;
New restrictions on social media
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China Reform Monitor: No. 1264
Beijing restores ties after Norway respects China’
s "
core interests"
China grants Pakistan warships to guard Gwadar
Iran Democracy Monitor: No. 171
A new morality crackdown;
Second thoughts about public executions?;
A growing Iranian footprint in the Caucasus...;
...as Russo-Iranian military cooperation heats up
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2108
Russia's health system gets sicker;
The costs of Putin's military campaigns
Trump’s Arsenal Against Iran
What will the new president do about Iran?
While still on the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump railed repeatedly against President Obama's "disastrous" nuclear deal with Iran. He pledged to tear up the agreement, or at least amend it substantially, as one of his first acts in office. Yet, for a host of reasons, the nuclear pact concluded between the Iran and the P5+1 powers (the U.S., U.K., Russia, China, France and Germany) last summer is likely to prove more resilient than either the president-elect or his advisers hope.