China Reform Monitor: No. 1245
Taiwan invites Dalai Lama, prompting threats from China;
China and Russia hold military drills in SCS
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Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2095
Russian anti-corruption officials behaving badly;
The Kremlin blocks further international aid to Ukraine
China Reform Monitor: No. 1244
More PLA generals targeted in anti-corruption campaign;
Xi welcomes Putin for G20 summit
Assessing US-India Defense Relations: The Technological Handshake
In the words of U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, two “handshakes” now define the increasingly intimate Indo-U.S. defense partnership. The “strategic handshake” was examined in detail in my last article for The Diplomat. We will now turn our attention to the “technological handshake,” shorthand for the growth in arms sales, technical cooperation, and defense co-production and co-development.
Morocco’s Liberal Challengers
Ilyas El Omari is on the offensive. The bespectacled 49-year-old activist who heads Morocco's Party of Authenticity and Modernity (PAM) has spent years honing PAM's political message and worldview. Now, with the Kingdom heading into what is shaping up to be a decisive general election on October 7, Omari senses a political opening.