| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China August 5, 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. Link of the Week Never before has an item made the Top Story in Wednesday�s Update and take the prize here. However, Su Hongqi�s tragic story of his wife�s murder and his family�s torture � all stemming from the �one child� policy � is too powerful for just one newsletter (Epoch Times). On Taiwan A Taiwanese businessman in Communist China, known only as Qingmu, exposes the optimistic talk of the economy of the People�s Republic as a complete, dangerous farce (Epoch Times). On the Velvet Crackdown (Hong Kong) Deroy Murdock, National Review Online, gives a quick summary and a very good analysis of the Communists� battle against independent media in the former British colony. On Communist China and the United States Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Alan Reynolds, of the Cato Institute, provides an excellent rebuttal to Communist China�s glowing foreign investment statistics (see also 6/30 Update). However, he ignores the national security implications of Communist China�s economic rise, in the Washington Times. Meanwhile, Sebastian Mallaby, in the Washington Post, has his own blind spot on the PRC � namely, he takes no account of Communist slave labor and the lack on independent unions depressing wages in the PRC. Wei Jingsheng writes to Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, on American attitudes toward the rest of the world (the letter was reprinted by China Support Network). The editors of the Epoch Times take a look at how American pharmaceutical firms are using residents of Communist China as guinea pigs for drug trials, sometimes with tragic results. On the Falun Gong War The editors of the Epoch Times examine the rise of PRC Education Minister Chen Zhili, and how she has used her position to smear Falun Gong. More On Human Rights in Communist China Phillip Pan, Washington Post, details how the Southern Metropolis Daily battled Communist abuses (see also 5/28/03, 6/11/03, 6/25/03, and 4/7 Updates and 6/18 Week�s Links), and how the cadres fought back against the paper. Peng Xiaoming, in the Epoch Times, describes in detail the Communist censorship machine. The editors of the Epoch Times provide a short, and far from exhaustive, list of Communist China�s abuses of people who wish to appeal earlier abuses by local cadres. Not even death ends the abuse, as the editors note with this detailed history of Communist organ harvesting. On the State of the Workers in the Workers� State Zhang Yinghong, Epoch Times, exposes and castigates Communist China�s discrimination against �rural� workers. Other Links The editors of the Epoch Times ask Apple Daily columnist Zhang Hua why retired cadres seem to age so suddenly. He answers: they were always old; they just hid it before retirement. Heidi B. Malhotra, also in the Epoch Times, ponders Communist China�s prospects for an economic �soft landing.� Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. 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. |