China Reform Monitor: No. 1216
China enmeshed in Zimbabwe politics;
Beijing pledges to implement DPRK sanctions
China enmeshed in Zimbabwe politics;
Beijing pledges to implement DPRK sanctions
Crimea languishes under Russian rule;
Savchenko trial heads toward predetermined outcome
Pentagon eyes next generation weapons;
Combating terrorists on social media;
A different kind of computer learning;
After DPRK test, new missile defense momentum in Seoul and Tokyo
Russia withdraws from Syria... somewhat;
The Obama administration holds the sanctions line
Last week, a fresh political scandal erupted on Capitol Hill over Iran. At issue was a new plan being considered by the Obama administration to provide Iran's ayatollahs with limited access to the U.S. financial system as a sweetener for their continued compliance with their government's 2015 nuclear deal with the nations of the P5+1.