Hong Kong installs thousands of surveillance cameras;
Teachers and public sector workers must hand in their passports;
Beijing gives local governments $28 billion to meet targets;
Baloch suicide bomber kills 2 Chinese near Karachi airport;
China’s Chery assembles cars in Russian plants vacated by Western rivals
Violence surges anew in India's Manipur;
The Tapi gets a new lease on life;
Another win for the Taliban;
Decision time in J&K
Three jailed for sedition mark the end of free speech in Hong Kong;
U.S. Coast Guard tracks Chinese, Russian vessels off the Alaskan coast;
China spends $2 billion per month on Iranian oil;
U.S. concerned about China's lending to indebted countries;
South Korea probes China’s manipulation of public opinion
Russia’s demographic crisis continues;
Surging drone production...;
...Gets a helping hand from Beijing;
Moscow incentivizes criminal enlistment...;
...And fields a "grandpa" army;
Viktor Bout is back - and helping Moscow meddle in the Mideast
Israel Mulls Its Iran Options: With considerable trepidation, the Middle East, and indeed the wider world, is awaiting Israel’s response to Iran’s massive October 1st missile barrage on the Jewish state. The White House, fearful of a wider regional war, is exerting massive (albeit mostly quiet) pressure for Jerusalem to limit its retaliation to something “proportionate” that doesn’t target either Iran’s nuclear program or its energy sites.