China Reform Monitor: No. 1160
PLA targets corruption in logistics department;
Mainland companies snapping up Hong Kong news outlets
 
PLA targets corruption in logistics department;
Mainland companies snapping up Hong Kong news outlets
 
The growing concerns of Arab nations over an emerging Iran nuclear deal and their reported desire for U.S. weapons to protect themselves are the unfortunate outgrowths of President Barack Obama's foreign policy realism.
In Georgia, a grassroots response to ISIS;
Unlikely allies in the Sinai;
Tackling education in Egypt;
Hamas gains in the West Bank;
The Islamic state's next casualty: The Taliban 
Moscow chafes at Ukraine's turn away from its Soviet past;
No joking allowed on Russia's Internet
 
To hear the Obama administration tell it, the framework nuclear accord agreed to between the P5+1 powers and Iran last month in Lausanne, Switzerland is a good deal. The White House has pledged that the final agreement to be concluded in coming weeks, backed up by a robust monitoring and verification regime, will block Iran's pathways to a bomb for at least a decade - and perhaps considerably longer.