| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China May 2, 2003 NEWS FLASH: WE DID IT! HUTCHISON WHAMPOA BOWS OUT OF GLOBAL CROSSING BID Hutchison Whampoa, the firm controlled by pro-Communist Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, has �scrapped a plan to buy Global Crossing because of a U.S. national security review� (Washington Post). The bankrupt Global �has 100,000 miles of lines that carry calls and information at high speeds around the world for companies and governments, including those of the United States and Britain.� HW, which controls to container ports on the Panama Canal, is at least partly owned by the so-called People�s Republic (see 3/19 and 3/26 Updates), and Li�s attempt to win over Global even included � temporarily � Bush Administration advisor Richard Perle. The firm�s failure is a major victory for the American people, and for anti-Communists worldwide. To all of you who let the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. how you feel: thank you very much. Now on to the . . . Link of the Week Oliver August, in the Times of London, blasts the Communists for its �extraordinary display of incompetence, obfuscation and obstructionism� about SARS. He also says the disease, and the Communists� reaction to it, could become an economic millstone, and a political crisis unrivaled since, and perhaps including, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. �I just don't trust the government.� According to John Pomfret, Washington Post, this is the overwhelming sentiment of folks within Communist China, or at least those willing to talk, regarding SARS. Given how the Communists have dealt with the disease, can anyone blame them? Pomfret found more anger in Beijing in a later piece. On the Political Fallout from the Disease Pomfret also has two pieces on the political fallout from SARS (here and here). Ellen Bork, deputy director of the Project for the New American Century, looks behind the �mass propaganda campaign� from the Communists in the Weekly Standard. Michael Elliot, Time wonders if SARS could force the Communists to liberalize their regime. Austin Bay, Washington Times, predicts domestic and international fallout from the disease (link courtesy Susan Prager, Member since 2003). Was SARS a Bioweapon Gone Wrong? So asks John LeBoutillier, former Congressman from New York, in Newsmax. More (a lot more) on Communist China and SARS Time has quite a bit on SARS. Hannah Beech, Time Asia, finds good reason for the anger: a continuing Communist cover-up in Shanghai. Beech and Romesh Ratnesar also examine the situation throughout the PRC, including possible political fallout, in Time U.S. Hong Kong�s media is less than pleased with Communist China�s handling of SARS, according to the BBC. Joan Kaufman, director of the AIDS Public Policy Project at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, compares Communist China�s secrecy on SARS to its continuing secrecy on the AIDS epidemic it largely caused with its hideously unhygienic rural blood drives in the Washington Post. Martin Regg Cohn, Toronto Sun, examines the reasons � none of them good � behind the SARS cover-up, while Long Yan details the cover-up on the Falun Gong web site (links courtesy Susan Prager). In Newsmax, Jack Wheeler looks at the economic fallout from SARS. On Katrina Leung Michelle Malkin, in the Washington Times, calls the �Parlor Maid� espionage scandal a �national security nightmare� (and rightly so, one should add). The editors of the Washington Post call for a congressional investigation. Notra Trulock, the ex-Energy Department counterintelligence head whose investigation into PRC theft of nuclear codes was likely compromised by Leung, weighs in on Newsmax. Dan Eggen, in the Washington Post, profiles Bill Cleveland, the �other� ex-FBI agent in this sordid tale. Although Cleveland has not been charged with anything, he affair with Leung has stunned nearly everyone, including the aforementioned Trulock. On Yang Jianli Jerome A. Cohen, a professor at New York University School of Law, and Jared Genser, president of Freedom Now, give s a quick biography of Chinese democracy activist Yang Jianli � including his arrest by the PRC and subsequent disappearance at its behest � and demand that Communist China release him � in the Washington Times. On North Korea The editors of the National Post call on Communist China to help end the North Korean regime, which they called �a modern-day Mordor.� They remain hopeful that the PRC will, in time, divest itself of its half-century ally. Doug Bandow, of the CATO Institute, repeats his call for the U.S. to let its democratic allies arm themselves with nuclear weapons to balance the North�s nuclear arsenal in National Review Online. Unfortunately, his discussion of Asia in general basically calls for the U.S. to leave our allies to their own devices against Communist China. Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, sent out every Monday. Other Links Lev Nazarov, Newsmax, issues praise for Howard Phillips, one of the few who �has been telling the truth about the danger (of Communist China), whatever the White House fashions have been.� Check out the latest on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our home page. 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]. 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