- Taiwan and China continue to enhance their presence in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. (Thanks Malcolm.)
- The International Energy Agency is proposing the biggest change to its direction since it was founded.
- A week old now, but still worth noting this FT piece about Aburizal Bakrie's plotting to become Indonesia's next president. (Thanks Stephen.)
- Margaret Thatcher was an early advocate of action against climate change.
- Sequestration: the US Air Force has just started grounding 17 squadrons.
- China is over-investing in physical capital, but maybe on purpose: 'China is using physical capital as a loss leader in order to grow cities that will produce network effects (which) will in turn foster the human capital that really makes a country rich.'
- What about the Fulda Gap? The last US Army heavy tank has left Germany.
Wednesday links: South China Sea, IEA, Bakrie, sequestration and more
Published 10 Apr 2013
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