China Reform Monitor: No. 709
Greater press freedom for Olympics doesn't reach Internet;
Taiwan still eyeing massive arms purchase
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Eurasia Security Watch: No. 182
Retooling the constitution in Turkmenistan;
A comeback for Iraqi oil;
Another Syrian murder mystery;
Sadr in retreat
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1581
Drums of war echo through the Caucasus;
A Russian hero laid to rest
China Reform Monitor: No. 708
China accused of sheltering Zimbabwe thugs;
Friction between Burma and Beijing?
A ‘New’ New World Order?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is at it again. In late July, Iran's firebrand president used a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Nonaligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran as the platform for a renewed call to arms in the Third World. In his remarks before the summit, Mr. Ahmadinejad blamed the West for everything from the spread of AIDS to nuclear proliferation, and called on the NAM countries to band together to create an alternative to the United Nations as a way of becoming "the pioneer of peace and justice in the world."