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...</font></strong></a><br><font size="2">As speculation grows - and it's not a "French" or "European left" plot - about deliberate distortion of the facts, the time is drawing close when some in the Bush administration will have to reconcile their extravagant claims about weapons of mass destruction with the ground reality in Iraq. - <b>Jim Lobe</b></font> <br><br><a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EF04Ak01.html"><strong><font size="2">Why Saddam was doomed, WMDs or not</font></strong></a><font size="2"> <br> Two days after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, the writing was already on the wall for the Saddam Hussein regime. Justification for the war would come later. In fact, the world is still waiting for it.</font><br><br><a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EF04Ad05.html "><strong><font size="2">SARS: Deception, by the numbers</font></strong></a><br><font size="2">China is winning the war against severe acute respiratory syndrome. Or is it? Asia Times Online has uncovered evidence that Chinese authorities are back to the book-cooking ways that they denounced before the world on April 20.</font></font> </td> </tr> </table> <br><a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EF04Ak03.html"><strong>US shadow clouds Iran's internal tussle</strong></a><br>Debate in Iran between the government and the public on what political road the country should take has in the past centered on a more open society and the press. Now, with the United States looming large, this debate has taken on strong new undertones.<br><br>  <img hspace="0" src="/web/20030603212152im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/arrow.gif" border="0"><a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EF04Ak04.html">Enter the Iraqi Islamic Republic. Not quite yet</a><br> <br> <a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EF04Dg01.html "><strong>US military in East Asia: Winds of change</strong></a><br> As the clamor over reports that the United States is considering plans to restructure its military forces in East Asia causes anxiety among both allies and rivals in the region, pundits wonder what message the US really wants to send to Pyongyang <i>and</i> Seoul. <strong>- Ralph A Cossa</strong><br> <br><a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/Japan/EF04Dh02.html "><strong>America's 'unsinkable aircraft carriers'</strong></a><br>Japan and Australia's unwavering support for the George W Bush administration is necessary for US plans to shift its military bases. But whether the price of being "unsinkable aircraft carriers" for the world's lone superpower will end up being too high for Tokyo and Canberra is another matter. <b>- Purnendra Jain</b> and <b>John Bruni</b> <br><br><strong><font color="#ff0000">THE ROVING EYE<br></font></strong><a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/EF04Dj02.html "><strong>That Bush-Chirac handshake</strong></a><br>A bit stiff maybe, but presidents George W Bush and Jacques Chirac managed to put on an acceptable show for the cameras at the Group of Eight meeting in Evian in an attempt to show the world they have put the US-French divide over Iraq behind them. Pity about the real business of the gathering, though. - <b>Pepe Escobar</b> <br><br>   <img hspace="0" src="/web/20030603212152im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/arrow.gif" border="0"><a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/EF04Dj01.html ">Little sparkle at Evian</a> <br> <br> <a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EF04Ad02.html "><strong>Echoes of Tiananmen</strong></a><br> The 14th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre this Wednesday, June 4, may not seem terribly notable. But in Asia, where participatory politics is getting a trial run, perhaps the lessons of that day should not go unheeded. <b>- Gary LaMoshi</b><br><br><a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/EF04Ag01.html"><strong>Hu makes his mark in Central Eurasia</strong></a><br>President Hu Jintao's visit to Russia and Kazakhstan provided the Chinese leader the opportunity to address some nitty-gritty economic and defense issues central to Beijing's strategic goals in Central Eurasia - as well as to rub shoulders with another budding player in the region, India. - <b>Sergei Blagov<br></b> <br> <a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EF04Ad01.html "><strong>Phlegm: China's Public Enemy No 1?</strong></a><br> With the war on SARS still raging, city governments across China have turned their attention to a long-standing tradition, spitting. <b>David Bandurski</b> argues that China's war on phlegm is a campaign of half-measures.<br> <br> <img hspace="0" src="/web/20030603212152im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/bestofbe4[2].gif" border="0"><br> <br> <a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EF03Ak03.html"><strong>One fewer reformist voice in Saudi Arabia</strong></a><br> In sacking the editor of an anti-extremist newspaper, Saudi officials have plainly shown that when it comes to the voices of reform, their ears are closed. And will remain so, no matter how loud the cries become, if anyone else dares, that is. - <b>Ian Urbina <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jun 2, '03)</font> <br> </b> <br> <a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EF03Ak01.html "><strong>Running circles around Iran</strong></a><br> Although the reports have been officially denied, news that Azerbaijan and Georgia could be used as launch pads for a United States military strike against Iran have not gone down very well in Tehran. Nor in Moscow, for that matter. - <b>Hooman Peimani <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jun 2, '03)</font> </b> <br> <br> <strong><font color="red">COMMENTARY</font><br> </strong><a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EF03Ak02.html "><strong>A threadbare emperor tours the world</strong></a><br> Despite the smiles and sycophancy that will greet President George W Bush as he swings around the world, all is not well within the empire, especially in Afghanistan and Iraq. And there's trouble on the home front, too. - <b>Jim Lobe <font color="#999999" size="1"> (Jun 2, '03)</font> <br> </b> <br> <a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EF03Ad03.html "><strong>New SARS disaster looms in Beijing</strong></a> <br> <img hspace="3" src="/web/20030603212152im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/beijing1-small.gif" align="left" vspace="3" border="0"> Before March, few people knew of Hong Kong's Amoy Gardens. That all changed once the residential complex experienced the largest localized outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome to date. 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While the plan has been generally well received by business analysts, it is largely at the mercy of global economic factors. <b>- Chee Yoke Heong</b><br> <br><a href="/web/20030603212152/http://atimes.com/atimes/Japan/EF04Dh01.html"><strong>Japan's biotech adventure</strong></a><br><img hspace="2" src="/web/20030603212152im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/KWR-logo-tiny.gif" align="left" vspace="2" border="0">Outdated commercial laws and unfamiliarity with high tech and venture financing strategies plagued foreign investment during Japan's recent e-commerce venture boom. Changes to the Commercial Code are beginning to fuel a new boom, this time in biotechnology. 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