| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China July 2, 2003 Link of the Week Ann Noonan, of the Laogai Research Foundation, laments the imminent passage of Article 23�s �anti-subversion� law in Hong Kong, and wants to know why the Bush Administration has been so quiet on the subject (Note: one of the interviews in this National Review Online piece is with Al Santoli of the American Foreign Policy Council: a Member since 2003). More On the Death of Freedom in Hong Kong Liam Fitzpatrick, Time Asia, mourns the end of civil liberties in the former British colony. On �1.3 billion customers� Peter Goodman, Washington Post, interviews several businessmen for whom not even the Communist cover-up on SARS has removed the rose-colored glasses and visions of �1.3 billion customers.� Sad. On the Falun Gong War and the U.S. Benjamin Soskis, Forward, writes on the reaction to the lawsuit filed by Friends of Falun Gong against Central Military Commission Chairman Jiang Zemin for authoring the crackdown on the spiritual movement in 1999. Link courtesy of Susan Prager, Member since 2003 Is Hu Jintao a reformer? Baopu Liu, in Time Asia, asks the question, and then answers it: no. Kari Huus, MSNBC, is not so certain. On the latest media crackdown Time Asia�s Matthew Forney laments the post-SARS censorship drive in Communist China. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the North Korea Report before the next edition is sent on Monday. 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. |