Thursday linkage: Assange, Cook Islands, missile defence and more

One of the few economists to predict the global financial crisis is again sounding the alarm.
Evan Osnos in the New Yorker: Clinton\'s Cook Islands visit shows US-China competition \'has entered a complex new phase\'.
For wonks only: a newish blog devoted mostly to the technical elements of ballistic missile defence.
And speaking of new blogs, check out the International Crisis Group\'s first effort: Resolving Conflict in South East Asia.
Syrian child refugees are already talking about sectarian revenge. (H/t Browser.)
There\'s a movie on the way about Julian Assange\'s early life.
Marginal Revolution, one of the world\'s most influential econoblogs, has established its own online university!
Weibo, China\'s version of Twitter, is just three years old but is \'now driving, in many ways, the entire national dialogue\'.