by Sam Roggeveen
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10 June 2009 12:46PM
- Global Trade Alert: A website dedicated to tracking soft-protectionist measures around the globe, and which countries they will hurt.
- India better placed than China to weather the global downturn, says JP Morgan.
- Indonesia promises to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty if the US does.
- America's National Air and Space Intelligence Center has released its annual Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat guide.
- China will launch a Mars probe in October, onboard a Russian rocket.
- Tank man: Newly released photos give a different perspective on that act of resistance in Tiananmen Square.
- Peter McCawley: What Obama's Cairo speech means for Indonesia.
- Quote of the day. Stephen Colbert is guest-editing Newsweek, and it's clearly an arduous job:
Of course, guest editing is more than just sitting around tanning myself by the gleam of Fareed Zakaria's teeth. I set the editorial agenda, assigned stories and yelled at Peter Parker to get me more photos of that web-slinging vigilante, Spider-Man. He's a menace!