South Asia Security Monitor: No. 291
Drone strikes resume, hit al Qaeda #2;
Panetta in India;
U.S. eases way for defense tech transfers to India;
SCO meets in Beijing
Drone strikes resume, hit al Qaeda #2;
Panetta in India;
U.S. eases way for defense tech transfers to India;
SCO meets in Beijing
Hizb ut-Tahrir rising in Tatarstan;
New law raises the cost of protest
What is less understood is Tehran's abuse of the financial sector, banks, front companies, and other deceptive techniques to evade controls responsible countries have instituted to stop it from achieving nuclearization.
President Ma invites Wen Jiabao to Taiwan;
Israel's military chief visits Beijing
With two important diplomatic victories last month, the Obama administration has laid the groundwork for the final chapters of the Afghan war.