| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China December 5, 2003 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available! My book detailing Communist China�s history of aiding terrorist states, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, and al Qaeda can be ordered here and here. � D.J. McGuire Link of the Week Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN, takes stock of the Communist reaction to �the demand for unbridled democracy, in both Taiwan and Hong Kong.� He finds a Communist regime �at least temporarily flummoxed� by the rising support for democracy in Hong Kong and independence in Taiwan. More On Hong Kong The editors of the Washington Times note the strong support for democracy in the former British colony, and also the lengths to which the Communists are going to stifle the pro-democracy forces. More On Taiwan Is the U.S. �engineering a dramatic and dangerous shift in American policy toward Taiwan as a gift to the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao�? William Kristol and Gary Schmitt, of the Project for the New American Century, say yes. Paul Lin, in the Epoch Times (HK), says no. Meanwhile, the editors of the Washington Post call on the Bush Administration to stand by Taiwan in the face of Communist �belligerent statements� against the island democracy. The editors of the Washington Times emphatically agree. On Communist China, North Korea, and the United States Deroy Murdock is upset about recent U.S. trade restrictions on PRC textiles (see 11/19 Update), and says so in National Review Online. Unbelievably, Murdock tries to link trade with Communist China to North Korea�s nuclear weapons. In fact, his comments are the very essence of the complete na�vet� behind �engagement� with Communist China. To wit: �Consider America's ongoing efforts to pacify North Korea. China, an at least nominally Communist country contiguous with Pyongyang, surely is Washington's best bet to keep the unpredictable Kim Jong Il from going, literally, ballistic.� Clearly, he needs a copy of Dragon in the Dark to disabuse himself of this ridiculous notion. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. More On Communist China and the United States Freed Zakaria, a Newsweek columnist, asks in the Washington Post why Hu Jintao got a better reception in East Asia than President Bush. Charles R. Smith, Newsmax, previews the upcoming visit to the U.S. by Communist Premier Wen Jiabao � and it�s not a pretty picture. Tim Luard, BBC, also weighs in on the visit�s prospects. On Health Care in Communist China Cheng Jinsong, Epoch Times, compares the health care systems of the U.S. and Communist China, and finds the latter to be severely lacking. Hannah Beech, Time Asia, also probes the deterioration of health care in the PRC. On Communist China and Mexico Mexico, long feared as the place where American jobs would go, is now losing jobs itself to Communist China. Mary Jordan, Washington Post, examines the plight of America�s neighbor. On the Falun Gong War The Epoch Times reran this July column from Du Daobin, an anti-Communist activist and frequent columnist for the paper. Du is now in prison for his writings (see 11/21 and last Week�s Links). Xiaoxia Gong, Radio Free Asia, comments on how Mary Kay�s catered to the PRC on Falun Gong (F.D.: yours truly�s wife is an Avon distributor), in the Washington Times. More On Human Rights in Communist China Robert Bernstein, a founder of Human Rights Watch, reminds the world of Communist China�s hideous treatment of its own people, and its censorship of anyone who exposes it, in the Washington Post. China Democracy Party founder Xu Wenli, forced into exile by the Communists, details Communist China�s internet crackdown, in the Post. John J. Tkacik, Jr., and Heritage Foundation fellow frequently cited in this publication, takes the editors of the Washington Post to task for calling the Communist-controlled Catholic church �Roman Catholic.� On the AIDS Blood Scandal in Communist China Jaime FlorCuz, CNN, talks to victims of the Communist AIDS blood-drive scandal � in which over 1 million in Henan province alone (see 9/4 and 9/25 Updates). Meanwhile, a taxi driver in Henan Province, known only as Huang for obvious reasons, tells the BBC what his life is like after contracting AIDS via the aforementioned blood drive. On Gao Zhan Susan Jakes, Time Asia, examines the reaction to Gao Zhan�s guilty plea for selling microprocessors to Communist China (see last Update). Other Links Ezra Vogel, of Harvard University, praises what he calls �an intellectual vitality that may be as broad and deep as the Western Renaissance� in Communist China. Of course, his Washington Post piece does not mention the complete lack of movement on political freedom � or Harvard�s PRC research scandal (see 8/2/00, 12/20/00, 6/20/01, and 10/22 Updates). 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. |