| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China October 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. The next Summer Olympics, in 2008, will take place in Beijing. Will the U.S. take part in a Communist Chinese version of the Munich Nazi propaganda event of 1936? Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Link of the Week Our good friends at the China Support Network provide a debate question and answer we should have heard last night. On Jiang Zemin�s Retirement Stephen Gregory, Epoch Times, details former Central Military Commission Chairman Jiang Zemin�s sordid history, and is glad to see him go. However, neither he nor dissident Cao Siyuan (Central News Agency via Epoch Times) holds any illusions about the rule of Hu Jintao. That cannot be said for the Pollyannaish Dexter Roberts of BusinessWeek (via MSNBC). On the Falun Gong War The spiritual movement continues to win sympathy for its plight in New York, as James Fish, Epoch Times, discovered (see also last Update). More On Human Rights in Communist China Simon Thomas, Epoch Times, singes Google for agreeing to serve as internet censor for Communist China, which includes blocking his newspaper (see also last Update). Michael C. Boyer, Associate Editor of Foreign Policy, joins Thomas in ripping Google in the Daily Standard. Zhao Zifa, also in the Epoch Times, talks to Wang Qingyun, a woman who has tried to petition to the Communists on behalf of her murdered son for seven years. On Taiwan Paul Reynolds, BBC, examines the war of words between Communist China and Taiwan � albeit from a perspective that seems to value �peace� over freedom. The editors of the Washington Times see ulterior motives in Communist China�s �peacekeeping� mission to Haiti � namely ending the Caribbean nation�s diplomatic support for the island democracy. James Morrison, �Embassy Row� editor for the Washington Times, talks to David Lee, Taiwan�s de facto Ambassador to the United States. From Lev Navrozov Newsmax�s voice in the wilderness on Communist China has praise for fellow anti-Communist Howard Phillips (Member since 2004), and another timely reminder of the totalitarianism of the so-called People�s Republic. More on Communist China and the United States Paul Weyrich, Chairman of the Free Congress Foundation, reminds his Newsmax column readers of the impending demise of restrictions on Communist Chinese textile imports, and the damage it would do to the American economy. Buried deep in a piece by NBC�s Eric Baculinao on Asia�s reaction to the U.S. Presidential election is this critical, if unfortunate, fact: �the strongest sigh of relief can be heard in China,� which has managed to avoid scrutiny during the campaign. On Communist China and the Rest of the World Bai Hua � Voice of America (via Epoch Times) � finds that Communist China�s zeal for economic partnership with Russia is meeting resistance in Moscow and beyond. Nico Colombant, also from VOA (via ET), examines the PRC�s growing oil ties in Africa. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC, weighs in on the PRC�s oil thirst in general. On Corruption in Communist China Mary Hennock, BBC, examines the Chinese Communist Party�s �new� emphasis on fighting corruption, and finds it very old. Louisa Lim, also from the BBC, sees a new avenue of bribery among the cadres: gift baskets. On the State of the Workers in the Workers� State Peter Goodman, Washington Post, finds workers in Communist China are finally starting to wise up to the abuses of PRC-owned factories (�The factories all cheat you,� she said. �Everyone there is a liar.�). Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the next Northern Korea Report (next edition goes out on Tuesday). Miss an Update, Week's Links, or Northern 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. |