| Link of the Week Audrey Kurth Cronin, a faculty member at Georgetown�s School of Foreign Service, went to the PRC to talk with its military about the terrorist war. What she found, as she notes in the Washington Times, was a Communist military completely fixated: on Taiwan. Her summary of the PRC view of the terrorist war: �What war on Terrorism?� On the PRC succession battle Hannah Beech, Time Asia, finds the upcoming Communist reshuffle generating little interest among the ordinary people in the PRC � who have enough on their plate trying to survive their corrupt local and provincial Communist chieftains. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes (BBC) examines Jiang�s efforts to remain at the helm of the Party, or at least the critical Central Military Commission. On the UNFPA and �one child� Ellen Goodman, Washington Post, has a rather venomous screed against the President�s decision to stop funding the UNFPA for its work in Communist China with its hideous �one child� policy. David Broder, also of the Post, is just as nasty, and more na�ve about Communist China, but at least he�s more coherent. Not everyone is as foolish as Broder and Goodman. The editors of the Canadian National Post provide a reminder of what the PRC�s �one child� policy is. Meanwhile, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Executive Editor of National Review Online (and China e-Lobby member), scopes the battle lines on UNFPA funding in next year�s budget. On Taiwan Willy Wo-Lap Lam (CNN) examines the Communists� latest efforts to bring Taiwan toward reunification, and how the people of the island democracy continue to resist them. Lisa Rose Weaver, also from CNN, looks at the military balance of power, and what the Communists are doing to tilt it in their won favor. CNN dedicates a feature web page to the Taiwan Straits situation. U.S. lists eight PRC companies sanctioned for selling arms and chemical/biological weapons components to Iran. Check out the story on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the North Korea Report; the next issue comes out on Monday. There�s still time to contact the President and tell him not to appoint pro-PRC Doug Paal as de facto ambassador to Taiwan. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our web site. 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. |