South Asia Security Monitor: No. 280
Kashmir CM calls for revoking AFSPA;
NATO open to BMD cooperation with India;
India and China spar over South China Sea;
Pakistan grants India MFN status
Kashmir CM calls for revoking AFSPA;
NATO open to BMD cooperation with India;
India and China spar over South China Sea;
Pakistan grants India MFN status
Indian governor wants new regiment to defend border with China;
China grapples with outbreak of food poisoning
It is something of a truism that in Washington, bad ideas never truly go away. Instead, they keep cropping up at the most inopportune moments. So it is with American policy toward Iran. Stymied in recent months by the resilience of Iran's increasingly mature nuclear effort and complicated by the unfolding turmoil of the “Arab Spring,” policymakers inside the Beltway are once again flirting with the idea that some sort of diplomatic rapprochement with the Islamic Republic is in fact possible.
China's BMD efforts advance;
India, NATO align on missile defense;
South Korea adds missile deterrent;
Reassuring Russia over European defense;
Turkey shuts Israel out of early warning;
New Russian ICBM stumbles out of the gate
Turkey hosts armed Syrian opposition;
Saudi succession reshuffle;
US drone base in Ethiopia;
Libyan arms make way to Gaza Strip