| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China June 6, 2003 Link of the Week Hamish McDonald, in The Age (Australian), reports from Tiananmen Square, 14 years after the massacre. On Hong Kong and the �anti-subversion� law The editors of the Washington Times slam Communist-controlled Hong Kong for its �anti-subversion� law, detail the assault on liberty that will result in that city, and blast the Bush Administration for paying so little attention to it all. Ellen Bork, of the Project for the New American Century, reprints a New York Times column by Hong Kong Democratic Party founder Martin Lee on the danger of the �anti-subversion� law, which will be enacted next month. More On Communist China and Human Rights Jay Nordlinger, National Review Online, comments on the arrests of four Internet anti-Communists (see last Update), and the Communist paranoia and thirst for power that drove the arrests (seventh bullet). Nordlinger also points attention to Youqin Wang � whose website is dedicated to chronicling victims of the Cultural Revolution � in a speech on anti-Communist Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (reprinted by NRO). On President Bush�s summit with Hu Jintao William Kristol, Weekly Standard, is not pleased with Bush�s performance during the Bush-Hu summit, and for good reason. Among the things Kristol noted: �Finally, the briefer stated that the U.S. will �help Taiwan to the extent possible defend itself.� This is a weakening of the president's previous pledge in 2001 to do �whatever it took to help Taiwan defend herself,� and sends a dangerous signal to Beijing.� Indeed. On Communist China and the rest of the world Dr. Alexandr Nemets, Newsmax, examines Russia�s ever-increasing ties with Communist China, and what it could mean for the United States. Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN, details what Hu Jintao is hearing from competing factions within the party on North Korea and Japan. Meanwhile, George Putnam, also in Newsmax, tracks the PRC�s moves to obtain �domination of the seas.� On Communist China and North Korea David Lampton, of the Nixon Center, provides a far too optimistic view of Communist China�s attitude toward nuclear North Korea in the Washington Post. The best example is this quote: �As one Chinese visitor put it to me recently, �North Korea really is a rogue nation! . . . They might sell [nuclear material] even to the Hui,� a minority people often accused of �separatism� in western China.� First of all, the Hui are a Muslim minority throughout Communist China, the group seeking independence � as China e-Lobby members already know � are called Uighurs, not Hui. Furthermore, does anyone really believe the North would deliberately aid opponents of their chief source of aid and trade, and their half-century ally? From this quarter, it looks like Lampton bought a bill of goods. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the North Korea Report before the next edition is sent on Monday. On Three Gorges Dam John Pomfret, Washington Post, traces the high hopes, and disastrous reality, of the Communists biggest battle against nature � the cracked, corruption riddled Three Gorges Dam. On Communist China and the G-8 Would Communist China join the group of advanced economies (known as the �G-7� plus Russia, or �G-8�)? Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN, is not so sure. While it would be a feather in the Communists� cap, Lam notes that the PRC has �worries that formally joining G8 would detract from its ability to be a spokesman for the developed world.� Patrick Goodenough, Cybercast News, has the same angle. More on the Technology Exports Frank Gaffney, Jr., head of the Center for Security Policy, warns that the supporters of looser export controls on supercomputers will not simply take last month�s defeat lying down (see last Update), and sees more fights ahead on the issue, in the Washington Times. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our home page. Sign the Boycott Petition: In reaction to the decision of the International Olympic Committee awarding Beijing the 2008 Olympic Games, the China e-Lobby has begun a petition for an American boycott of those games. 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. |