China Reform Monitor: No. 880
CPC instructions designed to remind PLA who’
s in charge;
Taiwan hopes for representation in new Egyptian regime
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China Reform Monitor: No. 879
Beijing investing more in Russian Far East than Moscow;
Facebook establishes office in Hong Kong, still faces trouble in China
Egypt Is No 1979 Iran
In the wake of grass-roots protests that swept Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak from power, more than a few commentators have cautioned that the current political turmoil could end up bearing more than a passing resemblance to the events that led up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Even that bleak outcome, however, might end up being wishful thinking. Ominously, the present situation in Egypt closely resembles the events leading up to Algeria‘s bloody 11-year civil war, which stretched from 1991 to 2002.
South Asia Security Monitor: No. 269
Flawed defense policy hampers India mil modernization;
Pak attacks down 20% but other data mixed;
U.S. drops
sanctions on Indian defense firms;
Pakistan's nuclear bonanza
China Reform Monitor: No. 878
China to benefit from Burma’
s boom in hydroelectric power;
Former Tiananmen leaders refused entry into Hong Kong