- 'I've rarely seen diplomats on both sides more white-knuckled'. The Obama Administration's out-going Asia point man Kurt Campbell sounds a dire warning about China-Japan relations.
- What Sihanouk left behind: journalist Nicholas Shakespeare returns to Cambodia. (Thanks Milton.)
- Analysis of satellite images showing North Korea's nuclear test site just days after the latest test.
- Jo Chandler's article on witchcraft in PNG got a huge international reaction. Here's her follow-up piece. (Thanks Danielle.)
- A brief history of China's 'Hamiltonian' growth model.
- The University of Nottingham has a useful-looking China blog. (H/t View from Taiwan.)
- 'The hope of some of the French revolutionaries was that paperwork would rationalize the state, that it would depersonalize power and destroy the corrupt networks of aristocratic influence.' It hasn't quite worked out that way. (H/t AL Daily.)
- The NY Times profiles the likely next governor of Japan's central bank, Haruhiko Kuroda.
Tuesday links: China-Japan, witches in PNG, Japan's central bank and more
Published 26 Feb 2013
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