| Sign the Boycott Petition: In reaction to the 2008 Olympic Games being awarded to Beijing, the China e-Lobby has begun a petition for an American boycott of those games. CHINA E-LOBBY UPDATE: MAY 1, 2002 TOP STORY: CIA SAYS COMMUNIST CHINESE HACK ATTACKS ARE ON THE WAY PRC TARGETING AMERICAN AND TAIWANESE MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS A new report from the CIA says Communist China is "working to launch wide-scale cyber-attacks on American and Taiwanese computer networks, including Internet-linked military systems considered vulnerable to sabotage" (Los Angeles Times). An unnamed U.S. official confirmed the PRC�s plans for hack attacks against the U.S. and Taiwan to MSNBC. Link courtesy of Ron Vogel, member since 2000. The Times report also cites a to-be-published Mulvenon/Rand report which claims the People's Republic was involved in hack attacks on U.S. web sites last year, stemming from the Hainan outrage (see May 2, 2001 update). A possible reprise of attacks may come later this spring. The CIA report says the Communists, while not yet able to engage in a major attack, are looking at everything from hacking to viruses in their plans to take out the American and Taiwanese information superhighways, particularly military communications. For news of Communist Chinese ally North Korea, check out the North Korea Report. (Sign up) As Communist China�s allies and customers enter the cross-hairs, check out the latest on �Communist China and the Terrorist War,� either directly or via our main page. OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS COMMUNIST V.P. HU JINTAO MEETS PRESIDENT BUSH, REFUSES HUMAN RIGHTS LETTERS Communist Vice President and heir apparent Hu Jintao visited the United States this week for meetings with President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today in Washington (BBC). Taiwan and human rights topped the list of items discussed during the brief talk. Yesterday, while meeting with members of Congress and the Cabinet, Hu refused four letters from Congressmen raising the issue of human rights Communist China, according to CNN. That upset California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, one of the most anti-Communist Democrats in Congress, who had hoped �that we could at least talk about human rights issues in China and Tibet.� Hu came to the Washington via Hawaii (Los Angeles Times) and New York, where he saw Ground Zero, met Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and was met with a dozen Falun Gong protestors (AFP via Washington Times). Before coming to the U.S., Hu visited Malaysia (see last update) and Singapore (BBC (2)). TWO NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES DEFECT VIA AMERICAN EMBASSY IN BEIJING Two North Koreans in Communist China � which sends any escapee it finds back to the Stalinist regime � defected to South Korea via the American Embassy in Beijing (BBC, Los Angeles Times). A third North Korean who got into the German Embassy is also likely headed for South Korea. Communist China�s forced repatriations have now led to almost 30 of escapees using Western embassies to get to the South. APPOINTMENT OF WEN HO LEE�S LAST SUPERVISOR TO DIRECTOR OF LAB PUT ON HOLD The University of California as put on hold its appointment of Ray Juzaitis, Wen Ho Lee�s supervisor at Los Alamos, as director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory �amid questions about his role� at Los Alamos while Lee was copying classified material (Los Angeles Times). Lee pled guilty to one count of �mishandling restricted data.� It was alleged that he copied nuclear codes for Communist China. RELATIONS BETWEEN U.S. AND TAIWAN �STRONGEST SINCE 1979� The Washington Post reports that the Bush Administration�s policies regarding Taiwan have led to U.S.-ROC ties that are �the strongest since 1979� � right before the Carter Administration switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing. A State Department official had this to say about the island democracy, �Taiwan is not looked at as a problem anymore . . . We look at it as a success story.� For more on Taiwan, see Republic of China (Taiwan) News There�s still time to contact the President and tell him not to appoint pro-PRC Doug Paal as de facto ambassador to Taiwan. HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS NEWS FROM THE FALUN GONG WAR: 2,000 ARRESTED IN CHANGCHUN Communist police arrested 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners in Changchun home of the television station temporarily taken over by Falun Gong followers last March. Over 150 of them are now in �reeducation through labor� camps, according to the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, cited by the Los Angeles Times. For more on the Falun Gong TV takeover, see March 13 update. EXILED DISSIDENT ARRESTED IN RETURN TO PRC Communist police arrested Yang Jianli on passport charges after he returned to Communist China. Yang, head of the Foundation for China in the 21st Century, was in Liaoyang �and other cities in the industrial northeast, where laid-off factory workers have mounted some of the biggest and longest protests in half a century of Communist rule� (Los Angeles Times). Yang is one of the few protestors in Tiananmen Square to continue his anti-Communist pro-democracy efforts (thousands of the protestors were killed by the military on June 4, 1989). He has repeatedly re-entered the PRC to build support for nonviolent, democratic resistance to the Communist regime, even after they refused to renew his passport. His lack of a passport led to his arrest this time. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL RIPS COMMUNIST REPRESSION OF LABOR PROTESTS Communist China�s response to growing labor unrest in its rural interior has included �detentions, and sometimes beatings and torture,� according to an Amnesty International report cited by the BBC. AI also ripped the Communists for jailing protest leaders � in some cases for as long as 15 years � and allowing demonstrations to go �unreported� in order to �hide the extent of the unrest.� OTHER MAINLAND NEWS COMMUNISTS ADMIT URBAN UNEMPLOYMENT WILL �TRIPLE� IN FOUR YEARS Communist China admitted this week that it expects urban unemployment to �triple over the next four years� to roughly twenty million. That might not seem like much in a population of over 1.3 billion, until one includes rural unemployment, which the PRC normally doesn�t count. The BBC put that figure at over 150 million � more than one out of every nine people. INTERNATIONAL NEWS U.S. AND COMMUNIST CHINA WIN SEATS ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION The United States won a seat on the much-maligned United Nations Human Rights Commission, one year after losing it in a surprise vote. The UN Commission has repeatedly failed to condemn Communist China for its brutal treatment of its own people. One reason, of course, is that the PRC is on the Commission. It easily kept its seat again this year. Report: Washington Times REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN) NEWS PRC PUTS MORE MISSILES INTO PLACE DIRECTLY OPPOSITE TAIWAN Communist China sent yet another shipment of missiles to its southeastern bases opposite Taiwan, according to Bill Gertz of the Washington Times. The shipment of missiles, believed to be CSS-6 Mod 2 missiles within �7� minutes� of the ROC, brings the number of Communist missiles aimed at the island democracy to be over 350. COMMUNIST CHINA WHACKS PRESIDENT CHEN Communist China �published one of the country's strongest criticisms yet of Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian� in the China Daily. The PRC-run paper called Chen a �troublemaker� and a �warrior for an independent Taiwan.� According to the BBC, however, the blast may have been to cover their fear of �what it sees as moves by the Bush administration towards unambiguous support for Taiwan.� HONG KONG NEWS BEIJING BUREAU CHIEF FOR HK PAPER FIRED FOR CHALLENGING COVERAGE OF PRC Jasper Becker, a reporter with the South China Morning Post and Beijing bureau chief there for several years, was fired over differences with his paper on its coverage of the PRC. The firing � immediately renewed concerns about the erosion of press freedom in the former British colony now under Chinese rule,� according to the Washington Post. Becker derided his firing as �self-censorship� (CNN) by the paper in an effort to stay on the Communists� good side. The South China Morning Post was the same paper from which Willy Wo-Lap Lam resigned after being removed as China editor due to his reporting. MORE ARRESTED AND DEPORTED FROM HONG KONG HK police arrested about 100 people who saw their right to stay in Hong Kong approved by the city's highest court and then revoked by the Communist legislature in Beijing. Relatives who had joined them in a protest were also arrested (BBC). The Communist-appointed government in Hong Kong has been deporting the "migrants" for about a month now, including one mentally retarded man (see last update). The deportations have continued to damage the already sullied reputation of HK leader Tung Chee-hwa, chosen by the Communists to run the city in 1997. Tung's government "requested" the override of the HK court by Beijing, leaving many convinced his is a mere puppet of the PRC. Not surprisingly, a Communist-picked panel "elected" him to another five-year term earlier this year. TIBET NEWS TWO NUNS REVEAL THEIR PLIGHT IN COMMUNIST JAILS Choeying Kunsang and Pasang Lhamo, two Tibetan nuns sent to prison by the Communists for protesting their brutal rule over Tibet, will testify today to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. Prisoners were subject to �electric batons, plastic hose pipes filled with sand, belts and rifle butts,� according to the Washington Post. The Communists also took a pint of each nun�s blood as �payment� upon their release. No news was reported from East Turkestan (�Xinjiang�) this week. 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. |