- A short video from The Atlantic on Chinese internet censorship and what it means for doing buisiness there.
- Welcome signs of sanity in the Obama Administration's Afghanistan policy. Easy on that nation-building rhetoric, Kevin, you might get left behind.
- The Asia Foundation's National Survey of the Thai People.
- Impressive sketchwork from a Russian soldier who was posted in Afghanistan — all done in ballpoint pen.
- An updated list of recent global protectionist meaures.
- Resilient Asia: The Asian Development Bank's annual outlook report.
- Speaking of resilience, is there a more resilient myth than the one which says you can only earn money by making things or digging them out of the ground? Barnaby Joyce today describes the Australian economy as:
...an economy which earns its money from the export of agriculture and minerals and which spins around the money by the provision of services.