| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China November 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. 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 Yours truly was hoping to put together a few words on the complete lack of discussion of Communist China during the recently ended Presidential campaign, but Curry Kenworthy, the new Executive Director of the China Support Network, beat me to it. On Communist China and Stalinist-controlled northern Korea Sign up for the next Northern Korea Report (out on Monday). Dr. Dong Li, an analyst for New Tang Dynasty Television examines the issue of the Stalinist regime�s nuclear ambitions from Communist China�s perspective in the Epoch Times, and finds: �China�s sustaining North Korea best serves its interests in an eventual world power struggle with the U.S.� On the Falun Gong War Zhou Yang, Epoch Times, summarizes a report from the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong on the torture, brainwashing, labor camps, and other horrific parts of the Communists� �re-education� campaign against the spiritual movement. Masooma Haq, Epoch Times, blasted the Communist propaganda-laden �education� system. Brian Marple, also in the Epoch Times, highlights the work of the Global Mission to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners � a group whose mission is self-explanatory � and their work with the children of persecuted practitioners. Thai Ton, another Epoch Times writer, calls on the U.S. Senate to join the House of Representatives in support of Falun Gong. More on Human Rights in Communist China The editors of the Washington Times lambaste Communist China for its continuing internet crackdown (see last Update), but remain hopeful that �tomorrow may belong to the e-dissidents.� Meanwhile, Communist China would have us believe it is a haven for �religious freedom.� Some anti-Communists, including yours truly, react via the China Support Network. On Communist China and the United States The editors of Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) have harsh words for �The beloved sport of �China-bashing�� in the United States, but can�t ignore the �fractures� between the U.S. and Communist China �that are just waiting to reopen � there is the issue of human rights, but above all the issue of Taiwan� (via Washington Times, last item). Ted Galen Carpenter, of the Cato Institute, ruins an otherwise excellent Washington Times column on Powell�s comments on Taiwan (which have since been all but disavowed, see last Update) by saying the comments �might not be so dangerous if the shift in U.S. policy included eliminating the commitment to defend Taiwan from attack.� Ugh! Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, throws some ridiculous �engagement� drivel into a Time Asia column on President Bush�s second term. Matthew Forney, also in Time Asia, tries to foresee Bush�s future PRC policies. Willy Lam, CNN, finds Communist China itself has a mixed opinion of the re-elected President. Jonahon Foreman, a reporter in India, praises the Bush Administration in National Review Online for its �assiduous prosecution of a closer alliance with India,� a longtime PRC rival. On the State of the Workers in the Workers� State Louisa Lim, BBC, talks to the people of the Miao, whose Guizhou province home was flooded by a Communist dam, for which the PRC paid no compensation. Lim finds the culture dying out amid �great bitterness� over the callousness of the Communists. Wu Xu-Er, Epoch Times, examines the �severe social and political problems that new President Hu Jintao may be unable to solve,� thanks to the man who left them for him, Jiang Zemin. On Taiwan Michael Elliott, Time Asia, interviews President Chen Shui-bian. As more details are found, they will be linked via the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Miss an Update, Week's Links, or Northern 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. |