China Reform Monitor: No. 1097
China to sell subs to Bangladesh;
Taiwan requests diesel-electric subs from U.S.
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Eurasia Security Watch: No. 317
Violent week in southern Jordan;
Assad seeks "
re-election"
Egypt sentences top MB leader to death;
Middle East peace: Kerry throws in towel;
Al Qaeda central gives way to local affiliates
China Reform Monitor: No. 1096
Tibetans in Nepal suffer from Chinese pressure;
Air quality standards under the microscope
Disclosure: Iran’s New Diplomatic Weapon
Give the Iranian regime credit for creativity. In the midst of extensive nuclear negotiations with the West, officials in Tehran have apparently hit upon a new way to play for time.
Is the Classified Information Paradigm Beyond Repair?
The problem. The U.S. government is demonstrably unable to protect the classified information on which much of national security is based. In the Manning and Snowden era when possibly two million classified documents are made public and the press is awarded prizes for publishing much of the stolen material, it is fair to ask whether the government is capable of protecting the information required for effective intelligence, military, and diplomatic results. As internet‐age leakers are outpacing spies as insider threats, it would appear that the paradigm to protect classified information is fundamentally broken, and it is time to consider what it might take to fix it. Or if the paradigm is truly beyond repair, what should replace it?