China Reform Monitor: No. 1150
Chinese media blackout on rising Xinjiang violence;
Beijing taking more active role in Afghan peace talks
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.
Ethnic Chinese rebels in Myanmar appeal to China for help;
India may overtake Chinese growth in next 1-2 years