| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China July 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 The editors of the Washington Times detail Communist China�s growing military might, and its anti-American objectives, and notes that the Communists� plan �demands immediate attention.� Indeed. On the Velvet Crackdown (Hong Kong) Note: 450,000 took to the streets of the city to demand full democracy (CNN, see more in the next Update). Communist China�s attempts to intimidate pro-democracy politicians and voters in Hong Kong receive strong criticism from The Project for the New American Century and The U.S. Committee for Hong Kong; they made their statement jointly. The editors of the Washington Post also blast the rough PRC tactics, and the �mild statements� about them, from the U.S. Michael Schuman and Neil Gough, of Time Asia, gauge the effect of Communist China�s propping up of the city�s economy. Gough also gives a thumbnail sketch of the new hierarchy under one country, one-and-a-half systems. CNN has an entire section on the troubled city. David Broder (Again) The Washington Post columnist reverts to conventional wisdom and platitudes in his column on the current state of affairs in the PRC. Broder unwittingly reveals how little original thinking there is on the subject of Communist China among the media elite. On Communist China and the United States Another example of this myopia comes from Aravind Adiga of Time Asia. Adiga discusses Communist China�s �propping up the U.S. dollar� without a single mention of the geopolitical objectives behind the Communists deliberate devaluing of their own currency. On the Falun Gong War Hai Ning, Sound of Hope International Broadcasting (via Epoch Times), interviews David Liang, Falun Gong practitioner and shooting victim (see last Update). On the State of the Workers in the Workers� State Zheng Yi, Guancha (via Epoch Times), details Jiang Zemin�s seminal role in the corrupt development land grabs cadres have used to enrich themselves while evicting and impoverishing those who previously lived there. More on Human Rights in Communist China The China Support Network laments the continuing Communist crackdown on freedom, and cites four powerful examples. The CSN also focuses particularly on the fate of Wang Wanxing, who has been in a mental hospital for a dozen years because of his attempt to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre (see 6/23 Update). On the Power Shortage Hannah Beech, Time Asia, takes a deeper look into the power shortages running throughout Communist China (see 12/10/03, 12/17/03, 3/31, 6/10 and 6/23 Updates), and finds much of it caused by the Communists� �shortsighted policies,� especially its refusal to build the necessary �energy infrastructure� to keep up with demand. On East Turkestan Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Stephanie Ho, Voice of America (via Epoch Times) details the life and lineage of Erkin Alptekin, head of the World Uighur Congress (note: Alptekin recently suffered a heart attack; we continue to hope for a speedy and full recovery). Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. 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. |