In recent months, the world's attention has been focused on China's provocative behavior in its Senkaku/Diaoyu island dispute with Japan, and for good reason. That dispute demands our utmost attention, and poses a tangible risk of for interstate conflict in the years to come.
Lockdown in Sochi;
Buying Ukraine’
s nuclear industry
Post-Volgograd, an anti-terror clampdown;
Moscow relaxes restrictions for Sochi
Xi administration cracking down on press freedoms;
China, Afghanistan at an impasse over copper deal
Last month was a bloody one in Russia. On December 29th and 30th, two suicide bombings in the southern city of Volgograd killed a combined total of 34 people and injured many more. In the process, they shone a rare spotlight on the true state of Russia's counterterrorism policy.