- Two on Taiwan: an opposition party releases a report showing an alarming military imbalance with China (thanks Malcolm), and John Mearsheimer argues that China's rise is really, really bad news for Taipei.
- Critics of politically appointed ambassadors assume that professional diplomats are uniformly brilliant, says Michael Fullilove.
- Caijing summarises Premier Li Keqiang's speech to the National People's Congress.
- To strengthen ASEAN, the Carnegie Endowment is looking for leadership from Indonesia.
- Crimea in the news again: the region's politics may be in turmoil, but that doesn't stop the local shipyard producing giant hovercraft for the Chinese navy.
- Nepal is adopting the classic strategy of a small country surrounded by great powers: it plays them off against each other. (Thanks Malcolm.)
- Grueling ad from Britain's Save the Children campaign for Syria's children (thanks Hugh):
Thursday links: Taiwan, Syria's children, Crimea, ASEAN, Nepal and more
Published 6 Mar 2014
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