Writing in the Moscow Times, Yulia Latynina thinks that that the Russian government should be more worried about losing territory to China in the long-term than collective security in Europe in the short term. The answer: focus on economic d...
This is certainly scary to read. RFE/RL has an article quoting a new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists citing than almost half of the world’s imprisoned journalists are bloggers or online editors/reporters. Russia ...
In Newsweek, a Chinese oil official from CNOOC warns than the current low prices are causing numerous production projects to be canceled because of skewed financing pegged to $70 a barrel – naturally meaning another supply shock is on the wa...
I’ve done a fair amount of blogging about my role as a legal adviser to a leading Singaporean dissident, Chee Soon Juan, who is currently doing his best to survive an ongoing faux-legal assault against him by the government of this authorita...
It’s Saturday, so I hope I am allowed a little satire. This video shows us what it would be like for Andy Rooney if he were on China’s version of 60 Minutes – and the best way to fight a parking ticket in court. Reminds me a lot ...
This bit comes from Bronwen Maddox at the Times: At the weekend’s G20 summit in Washington, Russia was almost silent. The contrast with China was startling. China, unlike Russia, has bought into the idea that it serves its own interest by em...
Today’s news that Somali pirates have hijacked a Saudi Arabian oil tanker, carrying one quarter of the OPEC nation’s daily production (valued at $100 million), may result in increased cooperation on security of oil shipments between th...
I am grateful to our Russian correspondent Grigory Pasko, who has done his best to spread the world among the Russian human rights community about the plight of my client Dr. Chee Soon Juan, one of Singapore’s greatest defenders of democracy...
The British are a peculiar bunch. I’ve lived here for years now, and still occasionally find myself surprised once in a while by the sudden reversals in foreign policy. It’s as though the FCO practices a unique brand of sel...
“Axis of Convenience”: Exploding the Myth of an Authoritarian Alliance in Russia-China Relations by Bobo Lo (Brookings Institution Press, £18.99, 300 pages) I recently had the pleasure of attending a discussion by Bobo Lo on Russia-Chi...
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