Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2032
Cutting Crimea loose;
More economic turbulence ahead
Cutting Crimea loose;
More economic turbulence ahead
Spotlight on repression in Xinjiang;
Beijing mulls rural land reform
Iraqi delegation in Beijing to boost ties;
Local government debts swell
China testing carrier-based fighter jets;
Xi visits PLA Daily, demands party loyalty
North Korea made international news last week when it declared that it had successfully carried out an underground test of a hydrogen bomb. The announcement touched off fevered speculation in Washington about the nature of the test itself (among other things, the yield is believed to have been to small to have been a thermonuclear device), as well as its larger geopolitical significance.