China Reform Monitor: No. 1032
China buys 60 more planes from Airbus;
Violence flares in Xinjiang  
China buys 60 more planes from Airbus;
Violence flares in Xinjiang  
The opposition movement a year later;
Former top political advisor “
resigns”
 
China to build 2nd aircraft carrier;
New gold rush in China  
Israel's military strikes in Syria leave the interested observer with admiration over Jerusalem's steadfastness, disgust over Washington's continued dithering, and worry over the long-term global implications.
To be sure, Syria is both a humanitarian horror and a geopolitical mess and, at this point, no one's got a clean, easy, fool-proof way to stop the slaughter and ensure that, after Bashar al-Assad falls, the nation won't become an even more dangerous safe haven for anti-Western terrorists.
Although most observers tend to treat them as separate phenomena, there is an intimate connection between North Korea's recent nuclear and long-range missile tests and China's growing push to control the vast oil and gas resources in the South China Sea and the associated sea lanes through which trillions of dollars in commerce travel.