Blogs and blogging
Monday links: Afghanistan's war dead, Denmark, Finland, climate and more
A counter to the 'hyperbolic' NY Times story about Australian spying on US law firms in Indonesia.
President Obama draws a clear connection between California's troubles and…
Friday links: PLA Navy, child soldiers, al Qaeda, nuclear fusion and more
Photos of the recent PLA Navy exercise staged in the Indian Ocean between Australia and Indonesia. I think Lateline used a few of these in its story last night, which featured…
Thursday links: G20, Snowden book, Dick Cheney, Shanghai, Myanmar census and more
Richard McGregor reviews a new book on the Snowden leaks: 'Snowden and this book illustrate more than just the reach of the Anglosphere’s national security state. The true story…
Wednesday links: Sochi, Snowden, Syria, Baucus, China's manifest destiny and more
US intelligence chief says China has a sense of 'manifest destiny' about its role in the South China and East China seas.
Journalists describe the conditions in Sochi's hotels…
Monday links: Li Na, Philip Seymour Hoffman, UN fashion, energy, Abenomics and more
It takes some skill to turn a story about the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan into wry, witty comedy without ever making light of the war itself, yet that's what the brilliant…
Monday links: Vietnam, China interest rates, corruption, Snowden, Japan and more
Are China's interest rates too high, or too low?
Corruption in Indonesia and India may be way higher than estimated: why graft is so hard to calculate.
As Myanmar's economy…
Thursday links: Big ideas, Syria and the Shia, China predictions, Iran's party island and more
McKinsey makes its 2014 China predictions. The Shanghai FTZ will be a damp squib, apparently. (Thanks Martine.)
Asia's factories slowly going green.
My colleague Rodger Shanahan…
Thursday links: Science fiction, Afghanistan, Shanghai, China's military and more
Full text of the report by President Obama's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology.
'This war is ending, not with victory, not with defeat but with hope that…
Tuesday links: Samsung, Jakarta, China's infrastructure, national happiness and more
Nice profile of Samsung, a company whose sales are equal to one-quarter of South Korea's economic output.
The New Yorker charts the history of American intelligence agencies'…
Thursday links: Al Qaida's mistake, Obama on Iran, Fukuyama, South China Sea and more
Al Qaida (or what remains of it) has decided that the 9/11 attacks were a mistake.
What's the difference between a rock and an island? It sounds like a children's riddle, but the…