Media Roundup: 21 Jun 2011

Europe's Hard Choice: More Direct Support of Weaker Nations, or Risk Default

By: Howard Schneider | The Washington Post

Europe is facing an increasingly divisive choice in the effort to resolve its economic crisis: a larger transfer of wealth from stronger nations such as Germany to weaker ones such as Greece, or a default by one or more nations that, if not managed properly, could touch off a wave of bank and corporate failures.

Car Bomb Attack on Iraqi Governor Kills 21 Police

By: Iman Radhi | Agence France-Presse

Two car bombs ripped through a guard post killing 21 policemen outside the provincial governor's home in Diwaniyah city on Tuesday, officials said, amid a surge of violence across Iraq.

Beijing's Financial Day of Reckoning Is Near

By: Carl E. Walter and Fraser J.T. Howie | The Wall Street Journal

A large part of China's economic miracle was built on dodgy loans, the bill for which is now coming due.

• Rising Prices in China Hit U.S. Purse
  By: JON HILSENRATH, LAURIE BURKITT AND ELIZABETH HOLMES | The Wall Street Journal
  
• Redistributing Power in the Taiwan Strait
  By: Eddie Walsh | ISN Insights
  
• China's Legal Exceptionalism Threatens International Integration
  By: Iain Mills | World Politics Review
  
• Obama's Afghan Drawdown Plan Takes Shape
  By: Jonathan S. Landay and Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers
  
• Fresh Libya Civilian Deaths Pile Pressure on NATO
  By: Saif Tawfiq | Reuters
  
• Ex-Tunisian President Found Guilty, in Absentia
  By: DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | The New York Times
  
• Refugees Find Easier Reception, For Now
  By: Matt Carr | Inter Press Service
  
• Greek PM Faces Crucial Confidence Vote
  By: ELENA BECATOROS | Associated Press
  
• Mexican Journalist, Family Slain
  By: Tracy Wilkinson | Los Angeles Times
  
• As Secession Nears, Sudan Steps Up Drive to Stop Rebels
  By: JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | The New York Times
  
• Protests in Yemen Target President's Sons
  Associated Press
  
• Surge of Syrian Refugees Tests Ties With Turkey
  By: Ruby Russell | The Washington Times
  
• Making Sense of OPEC's Stalemate
  By: Prashanth Parameswaran | World Politics Review
  
• Syrian Protesters Reject Assad's Latest Offers of Reform
  By: Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers
  
• Iran Hardliners Force Deputy Foreign Minister to Resign
  Associated Press
  
• UN to Give Ban New Term as Leader
  Agence France-Presse
  
• London's Poor Facing Squeeze Amid Cuts
  By: Anthony Faiola | The Washington Post
  
• West Africa Drugs Trafficking 'Increasingly Sophisticated'
  BBC
  
• Moscow's Plan to Increase Control over the North Caucasus Imperils its Effort to Modernize the Region
  By: Valery Dzutsev | Eurasia Daily Monitor
  
• Brazil's High Court OKs 'Marijuana Marches'
  By: Taylor Barnes | The Christian Science Monitor