China Reform Monitor: No. 961
New body to audit the PLA;
Anonymous hacker group targets Chinese government
New body to audit the PLA;
Anonymous hacker group targets Chinese government
India successfully tests new IRBM;
Fearing Afghan withdrawal, Russia looks to help NATO;
Pakistan issues new guidelines to resume ties with U.S.;
Taliban open spring offensive with brazen attack
Conflict in Kyrgyz government over Manas transit center;
Syrian refugees spilling into Turkey;
Maliki: the next rogue Middle Eastern leader?;
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan quarrel over resources
Major internet crackdown amid coup rumors;
HK residents protest Beijing "
interference"
in elections
Has the endgame on the Iranian nuclear program finally arrived? Is a deal in the cards? A broad swath of the foreign-policy cognoscenti, including Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria, the National Interest’s Paul Pillar, The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus, Esquire’s Richard Barnett and a host of others, seems to think so. They are optimistic about the current round of negotiations between Iran and the West and confident that - even if negotiations should somehow break down - Iran will not, indeed cannot, pose a real threat to the United States.