- Have we overestimated the size of our education exports sector?
- The India-Pakistan nuclear deterrence relationship resembles MUD rather than MAD.
- Japan's enduring soft power: Samurai mind training in the US military.
- Via Marginal Revolution, the IMF's new blog.
- President Lula says Brazil will be 'one of the great powers of the 21st century', and prepares to buy a stack of French military hardware to drive home the point.
- Afghanistan: American elite opinion is shifting. Even Tom Friedman feels a 'vast and rising ambivalence.'
- My colleague Stephen Grenville recommends this Paul Krugman essay ('How did economist get it so wrong?') and this piece about China's steel industry. Interesting note near the bottom of the latter article, about the Stern Hu case:
...because of links to the renewable energy department of the University of New South Wales, the top-most echelon of China's solar energy industry is heavily populated with ethnic Chinese who hold Australian passports. It is that kind of person, who has made a decision to place their nationality with a different kind of jurisdiction, who will be watching this case very closely.