| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China April 4, 2003 A Quick Note on the Calendar Tomorrow will be the 27th Anniversary of the first democracy protest in Communist China. Not quite as important, it also happens to be the 3rd Anniversary of the launch of the China e-Lobby. Three years ago, we had only a dozen members. Today we have over 240, 160 of whom also get the North Korea Report. We more than doubled the membership again this year. Just as important, we have been honored to welcome to the group columnists from National Review, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Deputy Director of Friends of Falun Gong. I want to thank each an every member for continuing to support us as we have grown in size and impact. Your willingness to stay informed, and inform others, about the true nature of Communist China and its Stalinist ally North Korea are what inspired the group�s beginnings, and its continuing growth. D.J. McGuire Now on to the . . . Link of the Week Ross Terrill, a researcher at Harvard University's East Asian Center, gives an excellent analysis of the Communists� method of maintaining ideological control over dissidents, intellectuals, and artists � and why a more �capitalist� economy does nothing to loosen their grip � in the Washington Post. On SARS and Communist China John Pomfret, Washington Post, provides damning detail of �a revealing case study in how China's authoritarian government, which seeks to maintain a monopoly on power and control information, concealed vital data about a life-threatening disease from the Chinese people.� One doctor, who naturally did not want to be named, said, �The idea was if they pretended it wasn't there, then it would go away.� Thomas S. Axworthy, chairman of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, reads Communist China the riot act over its four-month silence on SARS, which began its deadly run in Guangdong province last November and has now killed over seventy, in the Canadian National Post. The BBC also takes note of the Communists� role in spreading the disease with their silence. Meanwhile, Sarah Buckley, BBC, and Joe Havely, CNN, weigh in on the disease and how it continues to terrify Hong Kong, the one place in the PRC where the Communists can�t shut down all media coverage. Marianne Bray, CNN, interviews Hong Kong Health Secretary Dr. Yeoh Eng-kiong. Adam Brookes, also from the BBC, finds the locals in Guangdong �alarmingly uninformed� courtesy of the Communists. Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, sent out every Monday. Tell Gay Hartwell Sills of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to kill the Global Crossing sale to Hutchison Whampoa. 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]. Please feel free to send any news on Communist China or North Korea that you happen to find to the same address. |