- A Chinese path: Those huge, highly choreographed North Korean stadium displays could be telling us something about North Korea\'s future.
- Andrew Mack says peace agreements succeed, even when they fail: \'Wars that restart when peace agreements fall apart almost always experience a significant reduction in death tolls.\'
- We live in a peaceful age. Can it last?
- 3D printing threatens China\'s manufacturing-led economic model.
- Last Thursday we noted that the cumulative EU Olympic medal total was way above that of the US and China. But one of Andrew Sullivan\'s readers points out that if the EU were one country, \'they\'d only get one team in the team sports...and two or three entrants in the individual sports. They probably couldn\'t accumulate a medal haul of 253 because they couldn\'t get that many competitors and teams in the various sports.\'
- An ROK footballer has his Olympic bronze medal revoked for holding up a sign after the match supporting Korean sovereignty over disputed islands.
- John Mueller and Mark Stewart on the terrorism delusion:
Although bin Laden has been exposed mostly as a thing of smoke and mirrors, and although there has been no terrorist destruction that remotely rivals that inficted on September 11, the terrorism/counterterrorism saga persists determinedly, doggedly, and anticlimactically onward.