South Asia Security Monitor: No. 362
Sri Lanka suspends Chinese port project;
Indian, Pak Foreign Ministers meet;
Pakistan tests ballistic missile;
Bomb misses Bangladesh PM by minutes;
Stalling Rafale deal heightens prospects of PAK-FA  
Sri Lanka suspends Chinese port project;
Indian, Pak Foreign Ministers meet;
Pakistan tests ballistic missile;
Bomb misses Bangladesh PM by minutes;
Stalling Rafale deal heightens prospects of PAK-FA  
Chinese media blackout on rising Xinjiang violence;
Beijing taking more active role in Afghan peace talks
 
Advances in the Arctic, and the Eastern Mediterranean;
Nemtsov killing rocks Russia
 
A firestorm erupted Tuesday over the letter by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. and 46 other Senators to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, laying out their view of the ongoing negotiations regarding Iran's nuclear program. Critics of the letter started throwing around words like unprecedented, illegal, even treasonous.
The summit on countering violent extremism convened by the Obama administration last month was a lavish affair, full of pomp and circumstance and awash in foreign dignitaries. But substantive strategies for combatting radical ideologies, particularly those of Islamist groups, were far less in evidence.