China Reform Monitor: No. 720
With oil high, China turns to coal;
Party mouthpiece delineates "
noninterference"
principles
With oil high, China turns to coal;
Party mouthpiece delineates "
noninterference"
principles
Moscow blocks Google push into Russian market;
Ukraine closes door on Russian Black Fleet lease extension
Russia, Iran, and Qatar to form gas cartel;
Venezuela eyes Russian tanks as arms exports on rise
Give the Kremlin credit for ambition. Just weeks after its invasion of Georgia ignited a major conflict in the Caucasus and dramatically altered the status quo in the 'post-Soviet space', the Russian government appears to have set its sights on another strategic prize.