China Reform Monitor: No. 800
China aggravating tensions along Bhutan border;
China strengthening economic bonds with Kazakhstan
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Iran Democracy Monitor: No. 98
Neutralizing the next Montazeri;
A cold shoulder for Kerry;
The perils of outstanding scholarship in Iran;
A shift toward targeted sanctions
Eurasia Security Watch: No. 215
BATTLE AGAINST AQAP MAKES FOR ODD COUPLES;
HAMAS RAISES STAKES AT EGYPTIAN BORDER...;
AND RESUMES ATTACKS ON ISRAEL ON EVE OF MISSILE SHIELD...;
AMID ACCUSATIONS OF DISLOYALTY;
KAZAKH-CHINA PIPELINE ONLINE
China Reform Monitor: No. 799
Bejing mulls law to favor domestic tech firms;
Chinese map irks Vietnam, raises temperature on South China Sea
Stagnation Threatens U.S. Arms Superiority
A funny thing happened in the skies over Norway last month. On Dec. 10, as U.S. President Barack Obama geared up to deliver his acceptance speech before the Nobel Prize Committee in Oslo, spectators outdoors were treated to a spectacular display of spiraling light. The cause was not a UFO, as some contended, but a failed test of the Bulava, Russia's newest sea-launched intercontinental ballistic missile. The episode was a telling reminder of the shifting strategic balance between Washington and the rest of the world.