- Know your enemy: America's covert efforts to obtain foreign weapons.
- ASEAN centrality is being tested by two forces: Beijing's assertiveness in the South China Sea, and Washington's Pacific pivot.
- Busting a persistent myth: China is not America's banker. (Thanks Malcolm.)
- The Middle East has 'one of the best storytelling cultures in history', which is now expanding into a booming video game industry.
- Democracy in Retreat: A new book looks at democratic failures in the developing world since the end of the Cold War.
- Why we should be sceptical of claims that a given technology will be 'transformative'.
Wednesday links: ASEAN, America's banker, Arab video games and more
Published 6 Mar 2013
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