| Link of the Week Philip Pan, Washington Post, gives the most detailed account to date of last year�s Lioyang protests: from how they started, through how the Communists crushed it, and the aftermath. See also 3/13/02, 3/20/02, 3/27/02, 12/26/02, and last updates. On Legal Rights in Communist China One of the attorneys in the Liaoyang case, Mo Shaoping, has a history of defending clients caught in the buzz saw of the Communists� highly politicized court system. John Pomfret, Washington Post, gives this report from the legal front lines. On �Civilized Political Behavior� in Communist China Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN, looks at �zhengzhi� � which translated roughly to �civilized political behavior� � the Communists� latest euphemism for �delay(ing) the demise of the CCP's Leninist traditions while engendering more injustice and ill-feelings along the way.� On Hughes, Boeing, Technology Transfers, and Communist China The editors of the Washington Times rip Hughes Space and Communications Corporation (may have been misnamed in the last update) for the technology transfers to Communist China going back to the 1990s. Prediction Michael Ledeen, in NRO, predicts an unspecified crisis in Communist China sometime in 2003. On the Panama Canal Vanessa Hua examines the rivalry between Communist China and Taiwan over Panama � which recognizes the island democracy but has a Communist-tied Hong Kong firm manage two container ports for its canal � in the Washington Times. Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, sent out every Monday. Check out the latest on Communist China and the Terrorist War. 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 or North Korea that you happen to find to the same address. |