What you missed while you were watching Paris Hilton

ILLUSTRATION BY MIKE BENNY FOR FP

In case you missed it, here’s what’s happening this week on ForeignPolicy.com:

• Now online: July/August 2007. Find out which countries are on the verge of collapse, why Europe is more fiction than reality, what ideology has supplanted Communism, where the Chinese are going on vacation, and where in the world you can find a cheap tank of gas.
• The FP Memo: Don’t Be Beijing’s Puppet
  Is Hong Kong destined to be a democracy? Ten years after the British handed over their former colony to Beijing, this basic question is still up in the air. Here’s how Hong Kong’s leader Donald Tsang can ride to the rescue—and leave the city better than he found it. By Frank Ching
• Seven Questions: The CIA Airs Its Dirty Laundry
  Diamonds are forever. Government secrets, it seems, are not. The CIA just released its “Family Jewels”—nearly 700 pages of Cold War documents detailing plots of political assassinations, illegal wiretaps, and domestic spying. Secrecy expert Steven Aftergood tells FP what the release means for the Agency and for the future of American democracy.
• Why Nuclear Energy Isn’t the Great Green Hope
  As the planet warms, leaders from Washington to Beijing are pushing nuclear power as a clean alternative to coal. But this new strategy for fighting climate change has a fatal flaw: It can’t possibly work. By Charles Ferguson and Sharon Squassoni
• The List: Deals Without Wheels
  Is free trade doomed? U.S. President George W. Bush’s trade negotiating authority is soon to expire, Congress is on the warpath, and global trade talks are imploding. FP looks at the U.S. trade deals whose futures are now anything but certain.