| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China January 2, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available! My book detailing Communist China�s history of aiding terrorist states, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, and al Qaeda can be ordered here, at Barnes and Noble, or at Amazon. � D.J. McGuire Link of the Week Yet another tale of a �private� businessman in Communist China finds Peter Goodman of the Washington Post. In this case, it�s Sun Dawu, who found himself in jail after he formed his own bank to raise capital without bribing cadres and, more dangerously, broke �an unspoken rule: Private businesses are free to make money as long as they leave politics to the party.� More On Human Rights in Communist China Jennifer Chou, Radio Free Asia�s Director of Mandarin Service, laments the imprisonment of over 40 cyber-dissidents, in the Washington Times. Jeremy Reynalds, also in the Washington Times, talks to David Aikman, author of Jesus in Beijing (see last Week�s Links). Communist China�s 2003 Time Asia lists Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the man who exposed the Communist cover-up of SARS, as one of the �people who mattered� over the past year. Patrick Goodenough, Cybercast News, looks back at the past year in Asia, and Communist�s China�s role therein. On the State of Workers in the Workers� State Cao An Jushi, in the Epoch Times (HK), laments the fate of Communist China�s �young workers from the 1950s,� who now, in their old age, are seeing the PRC break every promise it made. On Hong Kong and Taiwan Paul Lin, in the Epoch Times, takes note of Communist China�s undermining of democracy in Hong Kong, and how it �further highlighted the importance and urgency of referendums and a new constitution in Taiwan.� Philip Pan, Washington Post, reports on the rise of Taiwan�s national identity, and how the Taiwanese people are growing more distant from the PRC. On Communist China and the United States Lev Navrozov, Newsmax, has another column on the PRC-U.S. nanotechnology race. On Japan and Communist China The editors of the Washington Times hail Japan�s continuing rise �into its natural place as a regional balance to Chinese hegemonic ambitions.� On Mao Zedong in Communist China Mao Zedone is riding a supposed wave of nostalgia, according to Tal Dvir in the London Telegraph via the Washington Times. How much of the nostalgia is forced is not explored. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. 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. |