| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China September 3, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available: here, at Amazon, or call 1-888-280-7715. The next North Korea Report will go out on Tuesday, September 6 (Sign up). 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 of the Week Economist-turned-dissident He Qinglian aims the rhetorical double-barrel at the myth of economic �engagement.� On Communist China and the Olympics Tracey Holmes, CNN, has a propaganda piece on Communist China�s plans for the 2008 Games that could earn her Party membership. Claude Salhani, international editor of United Press International, reveals in the Washington Times how the Olympics have not changed Communist China at all. On Communist China and the United States Randall Parker, Parapundit founder and Member since 2003, notes Communist China�s continuing rise in economic � and other � power. Charles R. Smith, Newsmax, details Senator John Kerry�s history of support for �engagement� with the PRC � although he ignores that with the possible exception of Taiwan�s defense, the President�s policies are largely similar. Smith also chronicles Communist China�s military advancement thanks to American aerospace firms, how President Bush refuses to let them make matters worse, and why John Kerry would, in Smith�s view, be more accommodating to the PRC. On Communist China and Japan Ayako Doi, formerly of the Japan Digest, writes in the Washington Post with alarm about growing hostility between the PRC and her homeland, and wishes the U.S. would help make it would go away (note: the column pays faint attention to Communist China�s role in this). On the State of Workers in the Workers� State Xia Aiming, Radio Free Asia (via Epoch Times), talks to two exiled analysts about the plight of the voiceless, second-class-citizens in Communist China: the migrant laborers. Feng Changle, Epoch Times, has another tale of a family whose lives were turned upside down, and in at least on case, ended, by the Communists� lust for land � and a bulldozer. Bridget Fallon, BBC, writes about the effects of the PRC power shortage on a factory in Shanghai. On the Falun Gong War Suman Srinivasan, Epoch Times, talks to Wenxin Wu the German resident who filed suit against Central Military Commission Chairman Jiang Zemin for authoring and continuing to lead the crackdown against Falun Gong (see 8/18 Update). Genevieve Lone, also in the Epoch Times, chronicles the suffering of more persecution victims. Evan Mantyk, Epoch Times again, interviews Yeong Ching Foo, wife of Dr. Charles Lee, American citizen, Falun Gong practitioner, and tortured prisoner in Communist China. On Human Rights in Communist China The OpenNet Initiative details the PRC�s �multifaceted regime of Internet censorship.� Wendy McElroy, Fox News, examines the consequences of the hideous �one child� policy. On Corruption in Communist China Zeng Renquan (which is actually a pen name meaning �to improve human rights�), writes in the Epoch Times, on the fate of Chen Shaoqing, a would-be cleanser in the Communist Party whose battle against corruption ended with threats against his family and repeated beatings. Zeng also mentions Huang Jinggao (see last Week�s Links). On Taiwan Paul Jackson, Calgary Sun, cheers those in the world community and the U.S. Congress who stand by the island democracy amid Communist threats (but those threats are a bit more real, and the likelihood of worldwide retribution less real, than Jackson knows). On Tibet Louisa Lim, BBC, examines the disconnect between Tibetans struggling to preserve their culture, and tourists from Communist China whose embrace of that culture does not include respect for Tibet�s history as an independent land. On East Turkestan Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Yours truly marked the day the PRC occupation of East Turkestan began � August 27, 1949. On Malaysia Jonathan Kent, BBC, finds many companies looking to Malaysia instead of Communist China as a potential destination for factories, call centers, etc. Miss an Update, Week's Links, or 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. |