| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China September 5, 2003 Links of the Week Arthur Waldron, of the University of Pennsylvania, has an excellent piece on the Hong Kong democracy movement, and what it means for the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese people, and the United States, in Commentary. Note: this link will likely last only until the magazine�s October issue hits the web and the streets. More on Hong Kong Hong Kong has pulled the infamous �anti-subversion� law. Tim Luard, BBC, calls the move, �an embarrassing defeat for the Communist government,� but notes that the Communists remain �as determined as ever for their will to prevail in the end.� On the �One Child� Policy The editors of the Washington Times have high praise for the State Department after it defunded an organization who works with the People�s Republic�s hideous �one child� policy (see last Update) and has this timely reminder for supporters of �engagement�: �Pressure does work. It just isn't tried often enough.� On Communist China and Trade Bruce Bartlett takes issue with those concerned over Communist China�s deliberately undervalued currency and other trade practices. Unfortunately, his Washington Times piece does not really address the point of the undervalued yuan/renminbi (about 12 cents); nor is he willing to discuss the national security consequences of his happy-go-lucky attitude. Alan Reynolds, of the CATO Institute, also is optimistic on PRC-U.S. trade, but he too ignores the currency and national security issues in his Washington Times piece. Ditto Jude Wanniski, who bashes �people in the Pentagon . . . who do not want China to grow fast,� on his website. Bruce Raynor, president of the mass textile union UNITE, takes a very different look at the subject in the Washington Post, noting that the PRC is so cruel to its own workers � and predatory against trade competition � that even traditional �third world� labor can�t compete. On North Korea Jack Kelly, of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, argues in the Washington Times that North Korea�s nuclear threats may push Communist China closer to the U.S. � he must have missed the PRC saying it was our fault (see last Update). Sign up for the North Korea Report before the next edition is sent on Monday. On Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea Ellen Bork, Deputy Director of the Project for the New American Century, calls for a NATO-like alliance of East Asian democracies. On Communist Chinese Espionage in the United States Notra Trulock, Associate Editor of the AIM Report, takes note of the PRC�s espionage activities in the U.S. in Newsmax (see also 8/13 and 8/20 Updates). Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. 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. |