- Is Indonesia moving towards abolition of the death penalty? Lowy's Dave McRae in Inside Indonesia.
- The NY Times has been under cyber attack by Chinese hackers ever since they heard that the Times was set to expose Wen Jiabao's family fortune.
- Why are spies and diplomats so fascinated by the books of a French pulp fiction spy novelist? 'The books are strange hybrids: top-selling pulp-fiction vehicles that also serve as intelligence drop boxes for spy agencies around the world.' (Thanks Andy.)
- 'Both China and India could clean up their air to American standards while still generating the power that they need through burning coal.'
- A two-part interview with Lowy's own Milton Osborne, 'for more than a half-century...an observer of the wonderful, horrible life of Norodom Sihanouk'.
- The China 'string of pearls' theory debunked? Not entirely, says Walter Russell Mead.
- Mahatma Gandhi's first video interview, now on YouTube:
Monday linkage: Indonesia, China hack, Gandhi interview, Cambodia and more
Published 4 Feb 2013
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