Last year's annual report on Chinese military developments was widely criticized. What does the 2013 version offer?
"China’s rise is more likely a statistical fiction, cooked up by the Chinese ruling elites to aggrandize their power and glory."
The pivot is a smart policy which is more nuanced than most people realize. But its China blind spot could be its undoing.
It remains in Beijing’s self-interest to provide aid to Pyongyang. The alternatives, like a North Korean collapse, could be far worse.
By any measure Julia Gillard's trip to Beijing was a success. However, her most visionary goal remains unfulfilled.
Simon Cockerell of Koryo Tours on what it's really like to visit North Korea.
"The history of North Korea suggests that its leadership acts with greatest vehemence when it is internally weak, as a way to justify its economic failures by blaming a foreign conspiracy..."