| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China December 3, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available here (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(s) of the Week The editors of the Epoch Times begin a nine-part series detailing the horrendous crimes of the Chinese Communist Party. The Overture and Part I will leave one highly anticipating the remaining eight columns (which will be translated soon). On Communist China and the United States Communist China�s cold war against the U.S. continues on several fronts. Willy Lam, of the Jamestown Foundation, gauges the situation in Latin America in the Epoch Times. Newsmax�s Lev Navrozov warns again about the Communists� nanotechnology plans. Fabian Hammer, on his blog, details ties between the People�s Republic and its fellow Communist regimes. Exiled dissidents Yongjun "Majer" Zhou and Wang Youcai, along with John Kusumi and Curry Kenworthy of the China Support Network, call on NBC to use the retirement of Tom Brokaw to break free of the �engagement� media consensus on Communist China. Charles Smith, Newsmax, details Communist China�s reliance on Russian arms to challenge the U.S. John Zaracostas, Washington Times, examines the rise of Communist China�s economy, and what it means for the U.S. and the rest of the world. Harold Meyerson, Washington Post, rips Wal-Mart for its willingness to accept Communist China�s fake �union,� but no real unions. Navrozov also finds a rare bird, an American doing business in Communist China who sees the PRC for what it really is, and as such, �To his financial detriment, but �out of principle� and for sake of �the future of the West,� he is engaged in �very low-tech businesses� of no conceivable strategic use.� On Communist China and Canada Geoffrey York, of Toronto�s Globe and Mail, details Communist China�s thirst for energy, including Canadian oil (see also last Update). On the Falun Gong War Zhang Wen, Epoch Times, has a detailed two-part series on the numerous actions practitioners abroad are taking against the Communist persecutors (Part I, Part II). James Fish, Epoch Times, profiles the Falun Gong practitioners who are in New York �to give a voice to the persecuted in China.� Rich Lowry, National Review Online, recommends to his fellow Americans: �For anyone near a Falun Gong protest in the United States, the imperative is clear: Annoy the Chinese government � take a brochure or exchange a kind word.� More on Human Rights in Communist China Joshua Kurlantzick, of The New Republic, details some of the �underground� Christian churches in Communist China, although in his Washington Post piece he seems more focused on the failings of some of the denominations than the Communist persecution of all on them. On the State of the Workers in the Workers� State Edward Cody, Washington Post, examines a new and growing trend in Communist China � factory workers engaging in labor actions against their employers. The workers are less upset at the actual employers than at the Communist Party � which refuses to let them form independent unions and general has acted as a ruthless strikebreaker. Fabian Hammer also weighs in on the labor situation in Communist China in his blog. Meanwhile, this BBC piece on what the combination of unscrupulous mine managers and their see-no-evil Communist patrons is best summarized by its title: �Life cheap in China's mines.� Eric Baculinao, NBC (via MSNBC) also weighs in. On Communist China and AIDS Huang, an AIDS-infected taxi driver in Henan Province, gives the BBC the painful reality of the Communists� �help� to sufferers like him: �they arrested those who tried to criticize (UK sp) them . . . nobody dares to speak out and no journalist can get into the village.� On Tibet This quarter had hoped that Erling Hoh, Washington Times, would use the second part of her series on Tibet to focus on the plight of the Tibetan people (see last Week�s Links). Those hopes were realized. On �Chinese Nationalism� Chris Orr, of The New Republic, slams the movie Hero for its �grotesquely nationalist moral� of justifying violent repression through the �language of peace, order, and stability.� Orr rightly finds it all too convenient a theme for the Communists. John Derbyshire of National Review Online (and Member since 2002) notes the PRC�s willingness to claim �that all the problems modern China has endured are the fault of foreigners� (emphasis in original). He then notes �if there is a prize awarded in Hell for killing Chinese people, the easy winner in the 20th-century division would be Mao Tse-tung.� On Stalinist-controlled northern Korea Sign up for the next Northern Korea Report (out on Monday). Fifty-four years ago this week, Mao sent in Communist Chinese troops to preserve the Kim Il-sung regime, and keep northern Korea in terror. Maureen Zebian, Epoch Times, remembers. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. 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