| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China August 1, 2003 Note: due to vacation plans, the next Week�s Links will go out on August 15. Link of the Week Randall Parker (Parapundit founder and Member since 2003) calls on the U.S. to hold Communist China accountable for anything its Stalinist ally North Korea does with its nuclear weapons program, including selling of nukes to terrorists. More On North Korea Charles R. Smith, in Newsmax, highlights the links between the PRC, North Korea, and Pakistan � our supposed ally in the terrorist war. John Tkacik, of the Heritage Foundation, gives a healthy reminder, in the Weekly Standard, of the fact that Communist China has �not been very helpful� in regards to its Stalinist ally. Sign up for the North Korea Report before the next edition is sent on Monday (August 11). On Hong Kong Martin Lee, the founder of the Hong Kong Democratic Party, attempts to reassure the Communists in Beijing that democracy in Hong Kong �will avoid the very instability that Beijing most fears,� in the Washington Post. On Yang Jianli Jared Genser, president of Freedom Now and a legal adviser to Yang Jianli, writes about Yang�s fight for freedom in the PRC, and his arrest by the Communists for it, in the International Herald Tribune. On the Cultural Revolution Paul Craig Roberts, in Newsmax, reviews Red-Color News Soldier, a new book detailing the horrors of Mao Zedong�s last massive, bloody purge: the Cultural Revolution. On Macau Tony Cheng, BBC, examines the situation in Macau, the former Portuguese colony now under PRC control. On the Russian (For Now?) Far East Peter Baker, Washington Post, examines the rising tensions in the Russian Far East between the natives and the expatriates from Communist China. On Communist China and Trade William R. Hawkins, of the U.S. Business and Industry Council, examines Communist China�s currency games with the rest of the world, and how the PRC manipulates its financial advantage to thwart America�s interests, in the Washington Times. Joshua Kurlantzick, from The New Republic pans Richard Gephardt�s criticism of PNTR for the PRC, but ignores the security issue entirely. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our home page. Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested in receiving it. Anyone who wishes to join can send his/her name and e-mail address to [email protected]. Please feel free to send any news on Communist China or North Korea that you happen to find to the same address. |