| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China February 6, 2004 Listen to the Chinascope, hosted by D.J. McGuire: Tuesday, midnight EST, on WXEI 95.3 FM in Crestview, FL, or here. 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 Lev Navrozov takes the prize for his Newsmax column bashing the �Center for Responsible Nanotechnology,� whose complete lack of concern for Communist China�s nanotech weapons plans turns �Responsible� into a sick joke. On Europe and Communist China David Jerke, Epoch Times (and Member since 2003) details France�s fawning treatment of Hu Jintao, and less than receptive treatment of anti-Communist protestors, during Hu�s visit. He ends his excellent column wondering, �Are the leaders of France selling its nation's soul?� The editors of the Washington Times have harsh words for France as it continues to push for the European Union to lift its arms ban on Communist China. The editors see the move as part of �a growing pattern of America's old allies in old Europe working to counter � if not undermine � U.S. interests.� Zhou Ren-ou, in the Epoch Times, takes a look back at the Chinese New Year celebrations in France, and who the PRC turned the screws in an attempt to keep Falun Gong invisible. Liu Xiabao, also in the Epoch Times, laments the exclusion of Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian from a Chinese book exhibition in France. Meanwhile, Georg Jarzembowski, a German member of the European Parliament, asks for �the New Year (to) bring fundamental human rights to all Chinese people around the world.� The Epoch Times reprinted his Lunar New Year�s wish. On Taiwan The aforementioned Mr. Jerke has a poetic call for the U.S. to stand by Taiwan . Greg Mastel, chief international trade adviser at Miller & Chevalier and a fellow at the New America Foundation, calls for a Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Taiwan to �send an unmistakable U.S. signal of support for the struggling democracy,� in the Washington Times. Gary Schmitt, executive director of the Project for the New American Century, is not so specific, but he too wants the U.S. to stand up for Taiwan, in the Weekly Standard. The editors of the Taipei Times (via the Washington Times) blast the World Health Organization for leaving the island democracy to fight the bird flu alone, rather than ruffle the PRC�s feathers. On Asylum From Communist China Matt Hayes, a former immigration attorney writing for Fox News, is upset at �asylum scams� from folks faking persecution under Communist China�s hideous �one child� policy to come to the U.S. While Hayes may have a point on the individual cases, he seems rather unconcerned about why so many are desperate to escape the PRC. On the State of Workers in the Workers� State The editors of the Epoch Times add another installment to the tales of migrant laborers in the PRC forced to take to the streets � or worse � to get the wages promised them. Radio Free Asia (via Epoch Times) details the plight of peasants thrown off farmland by its greedy owner � the Communist Party. Taiwan�s Central News Agency also weighs in (via Epoch Times). On Health Care in Communist China Xiao He, Epoch Times, details the rampant corruption that has turned health care in Communist China a swamp of bribery, fake medicines, and in some cases fake doctors: �When faced with deep and ever-present corruption, it is difficult for people to believe that anyone with a conscience for right and wrong still exists in the world.� On the Falun Gong War Jared Pearman, Epoch Times, reviews The Falun Gong Phenomenon, a report on the spiritual movement by Human Rights in China. �When I talk with you, I feel that my mind has become cleaner than before.� That�s what Josh Jordan, Epoch Times, heard from an unnamed Communist cadre in a stunning interview that revealed even some cadres are unhappy with Communist rule. More On Communist Human Rights Abuses Jay Nordlinger, National Review Online, notes the continued imprisonment of human rights activist Yang Jianli and Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer (second bullet). In the same column (next to last bullet), he blasts ABC News for calling PRC human rights abuses �perceived.� On Tibet Nordlinger also relays a letter he received from the father of Meghan Howard, the Harvard University student who spoke truth to power during Hu Jintao�s speech at the university (eighth bullet, see also 1/16 Week�s Links). What Really Happened to Zhu Shengwen? Matthew Forney, Time Asia, asks the above question regarding the former vice mayor of Harbin who was either another corrupt cadre or a fall guy murdered for his attempt to find the real source corruption in the town. Harbin is in Heliongjiang province, part of the thoroughly corrupt northeast of the PRC (see 1/28 Updates). On the �Crazy BMW Driver� (Also Related to a High-Ranking Heliongjiang Cadre) Wang Dan, a leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, details in the Epoch Times how the anger of the people, and their expressions of it on the internet, forced the Communists to re-examine the slap on the wrist given the daughter-in-law of the third ranking Heliongjiang cadre. All she did was kill a farmer�s wife with a BMW. On Corruption in Communist China RFA (via Epoch Times) details one of Communist China�s major venues for corruption � the Lunar New Year and other holidays. On India and Communist China Graham Barrett, formerly of the World Bank, has a disturbingly na�ve column on the future of India and the Communist China, in The Age (Australian). On Communist China and Southeast Asia A growing Communist China is ensnaring the economies of Southeast Asia, says Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. 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