Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1838
Voting monitor Golos to liquidate;
Russia evacuates Syrian port of Tartus
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China Reform Monitor: No. 1042
China criticized in human trafficking report;
Chinese nationalists eye Okinawa
South Asia Security Monitor: No. 323
Myanmar denounce Time magazine cover;
PAK PM call for treason trial for Musharraf;
PAK militants kill climbers in the Himalayas
China Reform Monitor: No. 1041
Chinese co. to build new Panama Canal--in Nicaragua;
SCMP warns of demographic crisis
Snowden Reveals The Pathetic State of U.S. Diplomacy
June 30 marked the last day in office for Tara Sonenshine, the now-former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. Although Sonenshine tendered her resignation back in April, the Obama administration has yet to nominate her replacement. For months now, the public diplomacy community has dreaded the leadership crisis that this high-level vacancy will create for U.S. soft power efforts abroad.