- Michael Fullilove has started work as the Lowy Institute\'s new Executive Director. He\'s also finishing a book on FDR and in October will publish the third in a series of analyses he\'s written comparing the foreign policies of the two presidential candidates (here\'s the Obama-McCain paper, and here\'s the Bush-Kerry version).
- US greenhouse emissions have dropped to a 20-year low, partly thanks to the natural gas boom. How much lower can the US go?
- The US military wants to make cyberwar a routine part of its operations. (Thanks Alex.)
- Michael Pettis, who has been consistently pessimistic about China\'s economy, sounds a note of guarded optimism about policy \'re-balancing\'. But it will hurt Australia, which has \'gotten fat on Chinese overinvestment\'.
- China\'s state media does a \'survey\' of the country\'s happiest cities. (Thanks John.)
- Italian PM Mario Monti is blaming Germany and France for Italy\'s problems, a sure sign his reform agenda has failed.
- Malcolm Gladwell talks about his scepticism of social media as a political force (h/t Browser):
Thursday linkage: China re-balancing, Italy, Gladwell, cyberwar and more
Published 23 Aug 2012
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