| Link of the Week The Taipei Times compares President Bush and former President Clinton regarding Taiwan, and is particularly harsh on the latter. Other Taiwan Link Joshua Micah Marshall, of The New Republic, wonders why the Bush Administration is about to pick Douglas Paal as the new de facto ambassador to Taiwan. After reading the piece, so will you. There�s still time to contact the President and tell him not to appoint Paal to this crucial post. On Hong Kong Martin Lee, chairman of the Hong Kong Democratic Party and an elected member of the local Legislative Committee, blasts Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa and his record of subservience to the Communists, in the Washington Post. On Bush�s Trip to China William Kristol and Robert Kagan, of the Weekly Standard, gives warm praise to Bush�s call for Chinese freedom at Tsinghua University last week. Robin Wright, of the Los Angeles Times, also analyzed the trip. On Religious Freedom Damien McElroy, of the London Daily Telegraph, examines the plight of a small Christian congregation in the PRC that must spread word of its worship by mobile phone to avoid the Communists. On the 2008 Communist Olympiad Richard Starr, in the Weekly Standard, sickeningly takes note of the praise Weber Shandwick Worldwide is winning for its PR campaign to get the 2008 Olympics awarded to Beijing. As Communist China�s allies and weapons customers enter the crosshairs, check out the latest on �Communist China and the Terrorist War,� either directly or via our main page. Other Links Georgie Ann Geyer gives her own profile of Communist heir apparent Hu Jintao in the Washington Times. CNN�s Willy Wo-Lap Lam looks at the issues to be �discussed� at the next session of the Communist Parliament, which opens on Tuesday. Ching Ching-Ni (Los Angeles Times) examines the dangerous cottage industry of fireworks in the PRC. Stratfor.com, via World Net Daily, looks at the rising discontent in Communist China over corruption and the impoverishment of the rural interior. Sign the Boycott Petition: In reaction to the decision of the International Olympic Committee awarding Beijing the 2008 Olympic Games, the China e-Lobby has begun a petition for an American boycott of those games. 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 you happen to find to the same address. |