| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China October 3, 2003 Link of the Week Peter Goodspeed takes a hard, unvarnished look at Communist China, past and present, in this excellent National Post (Canadian) piece. On Communist China and the United States Peter Brookes, of the Heritage Foundation, warns against looking at the PRC-U.S. relationship with rose-colored glasses (although he undermines it somewhat by insisting there are �mutual interests found in the War on Terror�), in the New York Post. Irwin M. Stelzer, of the Hudson Institute, finds the Communist undervalued currency � and resultant holdings of U.S. debt and ability to affect interest rates here � have become �a potential constraint on this country's freedom of action in, among other places, North Korea.� His penetrating analysis can be found in the Weekly Standard. On �Reform� in Communist China Much has been said of the possibility for reform in Communist China. As John Pomfret, Washington Post, reports, one local party boss, Wei Shengduo, decided to put it to the test: he allowed the people in his township to choose its mayor. His superior, the county party boss, cancelled the election, and threw him in jail. On Hong Kong Mike Chinoy, CNN, interviews pro-democracy legislator Emily Lau. On the Communist Olympiad of 2008 Kari Huus, MSNBC, details how corporate America is salivating over Communist contracts related to the Olympics, human rights and national security be damned. On Communist China�s Space Program The Houston Chronicle reprints this Los Angeles Times piece (oddly enough, without a byline) on Communist China�s hopes for its space program � both civilian and military. On Prostitution in Communist China Tim Luard, BBC, examines the fallout from a prostitution orgy that has become a major embarrassment for Communist China. 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. 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. |