Thursday linkage: Coal in China, democracy and growth, Hagel and more

The stakes – who gets to construct the legal, economic, and military architecture of an integrated Indo-Pacific region – are enormous. Without bold policy from the US and India, the answer will be China.

Ten canneries were to be built to capture more value from tuna caught in PNG waters. A decade later, there are no canneries.

In Beijing’s scramble for Africa, history is repeating and locals are once again missing out.