Analysis by leading think tanks
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ASIA
Xi Jinping on Pakistan: ‘I Feel as if I Am Going to Visit the Home of my Own Brother’ (Ankit Panda, The Diplomat), http://thediplomat.com/2015/04/xi-jinping-on-pakistan-i-feel-as-if-i-am-going-to-visit-the-home-of-my-own-brother/
35 Killed in ISIS’ First Claimed Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan (Ankit Panda, The Diplomat), http://thediplomat.com/2015/04/35-killed-in-isis-first-claimed-suicide-bombing-in-afghanistan/
GLOBAL
The US,China and the AIIIB: from sero-sum competition to win-win cooperation ? (Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim, Eurasia Review), http://www.eurasiareview.com/19042015-the-us-china-and-the-aiib-from-zero-sum-competition-to-win-win-cooperation-analysis/
Next phase of US Pivot to Asia: responses from China (B. R. Deepak, SAAG), http://www.eurasiareview.com/19042015-next-phase-of-us-pivot-to-asia-responses-from-china-analysis/
LATIN AMERICA
Don’t look for Latin American jihadis – yet (Massimo Di Ricco, Al Jazeera), http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/03/don-jihadi-jose-150330072341180.html
MIDDLE EAST
Egypt’s Nationalists Dominate in a Politics-Free Zone (Michele Dunne, Carnegie Endowment), http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/04/15/egypt-s-nationalists-dominate-in-politics-free-zone/i75a
The Authoritarian Resurgence: Saudi Arabia’s Anxious Autocrats (Frederic Wehrey, Carnegie Endowment), http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/04/15/authoritarian-resurgence-saudi-arabia-s-anxious-autocrats/i75m
RUSSIA
Russia’s revised military doctrine: Putin’s posturing and swaggering (Richard Rousseau, Eurasia Reveiw), http://www.eurasiareview.com/19042015-russias-revised-military-doctrine-putins-posturing-and-swaggering-analysis/
