China Reform Monitor: No. 1073
TIP takes credit for Tiananmen attack;
China begins producing carrier-based J-15 fighters
TIP takes credit for Tiananmen attack;
China begins producing carrier-based J-15 fighters
UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, is tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees. The films, pictures, slides and prints the organization has collected on the refugees' plight will now be displayed in Jerusalem's Old City in an exhibit entitled "The Long Journey," which will then tour Europe and North America. The images, available online, are heartbreakingly powerful and emotive.
US suspends aid to Syrian rebels;
al Qaeda linked militants gain ground in Iraq;
Defense ministry compound attacked in Yemen
Start preparing for Pax Iranica. That is the unspoken message behind the interim nuclear agreement hammered out between the P5+1 powers and Iran in Geneva last month. For, despite the insistence in Washington and European capitals that it is only temporary, the new deal has nonetheless prompted what amounts to a seismic shift in Middle Eastern politics.
A not-so-rosy economic future;
Central Asian gains for Gazprom