| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China April 1, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available: here, at Amazon, or call 1-888-280-7715. Link of the Week Yang Xiaomei, of both the Epoch Times and New Tang Dynasty TV, details how Communist China�s long arm of repression reached into the University of Minnesota election of Chinese expatriates. This is easily the most important piece to read for anyone who wants to understand what expatriates go through, even in the relative safety of the United States. More On Communist China and the United States Lev Navrozov of Newsmax does it again with another searing column on the nanotechnology race the U.S. refuses to run, (with a final slap at �engagement� and North Korea to boot!). Frank Gaffney, Jr. of the Center for Security Policy, gives an excellent rundown of Communist China�s growing threat to American interests in Asia, in the Washington Times. Dave Eberhart, Newsmax, details Communist China�s determination to put �a gun to the head of U.S. chip makers.� Their demands are as follows: �Either turn over your patented technology � and accept our standards � or we won�t allow U.S. companies to enter Chinese markets.� For more on this, see the 3/24 Update. On Taiwan�s Election Paul Greenberg, in the Washington Times, has a deliberately foggy piece on the vote. The editors of the Times present a more robust defense of the island democracy. Wu Xueer, Epoch Times, reports on the reaction to the election from a forum in Hong Kong. William Rusher, of the Claremont Institute, thoroughly botches things in his analysis of the election and Chen�s �willingness to play fast and loose with America's crucial support,� in World Net Daily. Rusher completely ignored the fact the America�s anger at Chen�s March 20 referenda vanished when the referenda were actually written (see 1/21 and 2/11 Updates). Caroline Gluck, BBC, interviews Taiwanese, and examines the future of the island democracy. Sima Tai, Epoch Times, reviews Communist China�s reaction to Chen�s re-election. On Hong Kong Ellen Bork, Deputy Director of the Project for the New American Century, calls on the U.S. to wake up and see the Communist perversion of Hong Kong�s Basic Law, and step up to the plate against one country, one-and-a-half systems. On the Death of Zhao Pinlu Leading exiled dissident Wei Jingsheng eulogizes his fallen fellow dissident (reprinted by the China Support Network). More On Human Rights in Communist China Liu Xiaobo, Epoch Times, blasts the Communists for using �stability� as an excuse and cover for �the Chinese communists and privileged ruling class� using �the dictatorial order, enforced with guns, used for protecting their own interests and making public property into their own private property.� Xiang Ling, also in the Epoch Times, documents the extensive Communist censorship of the internet. Alicia Burns, of the Digital Freedom Network, also notices the crackdown, but thinks Amnesty International should put the blame solely on the Communists, not the American software companies with whom they do business, in Newsmax. Helen Chalantry, Epoch Times as well, notes Communist China�s fear of large crowds, particularly those with a grievance against the Party. You thought Three Gorges Dam was bad? Zhan Gao, Epoch Times, examines the growing controversy surrounding the proposed Nu River dam project, which could make Three Gorges Dam look pristine by comparison. On Universities in Communist China Zeng Renquan, Epoch Times, examines the case of murder suspect and university student Ma Jiajue, and what it says about the �systemic corruption� of the Communists� universities. On the State of Workers in the Workers� State An anonymous laborer in Communist China details his backbreaking work schedule, wonders if �the Labor Law just lip service,� and begs for help, from anyone, in the Epoch Times. Fuchsia Dunlop, BBC, examines the yawning gap between the Communist-connected rich and the impoverished peasantry, �one of the largest (gaps) in the world.� Jared Pearman, also in the Epoch Times, talks to Bob Baugh, executive director of AFL-CIO�s Industrial Union Council, and exiled dissident Wei Jingsheng, the moving forces behind the union�s trade petition to the Bush Administration calling for tariffs on PRC imports until the Communists stop abusing their own workers and driving down labor costs in the process. Robert Samuelson, in the Washington Post, puts together a Pollyannish view, disguised as a balanced one, of Communist China�s horrendous labor conditions (and once again, the national security factor in the PRC�s rise as a global economic power is completely ignored). On the Senkaku Islands Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, details the fallout from the seven PRC �activists� from who tried to advance the Communist claim to Japan�s Senkaku Islands. 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