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TOP STORY: MORE PRC FIRMS SANCTIONED FOR SELLING ARMS TO IRAN
The Bush Administration �announced a new series of sanctions against . . . Chinese Army owned companies� (Newsmax) for �illegal arms technology transfers to Iran.� The transfers had �the potential to make a material contribution to the development of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or cruise or ballistic missile systems.�
The firms hit with sanctions were the Beijing Institute of Aerodynamics, the Beijing Institute of Opto-Electronic Technology, LIMMT Economic and Trade Company, Ltd., the Oriental Scientific Instruments Corporation, and South Industries Science and Technology Trading Co., Ltd. All of these are owned by the so-called People�s Liberation Army.
The People�s Republic�s has a long history of supporting Iran�s development of missiles, biological weapons, chemical weapons, and even nuclear weapons (see 1/31/01, 9/12/01, 1/30/02, 3/20/02, 7/31/02, 12/26/02, 5/28/03, 7/9/03, 12/24/03, and 6/16 Updates).
MORE NEWS ON COMMUNIST CHINA, EAST TURKESTAN, AND THE TERRORIST WAR
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COMMUNIST CHINA AMONG THOSE WHO PROTECTED SADDAM�S OIL-FOR-FOOD ABUSE
Communist China was part of the �coalition of the venal� (Bill Gertz, Washington Times) who �blocked U.S. efforts within the United Nations to stop Saddam Hussein from misusing the oil-for-food program.� The deposed Iraqi strongman used the program to steal over $10 billion and purchase weapons.
Communist China was one of those from whom Saddam purchased weapons: a fiber-optic network to integrate his air defenses, weapons of mass destruction components, and missile launching patrol boats � the U.S. intercepted the last of these (see 2/21/01, 2/28/01, 3/7/01, 3/14/01, 3/21/01, 12/18/02, 2/5/03, 3/19/03, 4/9/03, and 12/17/03 Updates).
CADRE READY TO PRESS CASE FOR UIGHUR PEOPLE KILLED IN BEIJING
Zi Lajiang, member of the PRC Parliament from occupied East Turkestan (�Xinjiang�), was stabbed to death in a Beijing park. The cadre �intended to appeal on behalf of a large number of Uighur people in Xinjiang before the Party Central Committee� (Epoch Times).
Zi was, in particular, to focus on �the theft of public assets and the misappropriation of private properties by corrupted local officials, improper sentences by judges and the persecution of the citizenry by local policemen.� Almost 30 appellants from outside East Turkestan protested his murder, which nearly all assume was ordered by other cadres.
PIPELINE TO STEAL EAST TURKSTAN NATURAL GAS PROCEEDING APACE
Communist China opened the eastern piece of its natural gas pipeline to Shanghai. At present, the pipeline stretches back to Jingbian � in Shaanxi Province. When completed, the pipeline will extract natural gas from occupied East Turkestan. Report: Central News Agency, Taiwan, via Epoch Times
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KIM JONG-IL�S DOCTOR REPORTEDLY CAUGHT TRYING TO DEFECT
According to the Republic of Korea newspaper Munhwa (cited by Voice of America via Epoch Times), the doctor to Stalinist-in-chief Kim Jong-il attempted to flee Stalinist-controlled northern Korea (SCNK). Police for Communist China arrested him and he �was being questioned intensively by Chinese security authorities before being returned to Pyongyang.�
Communist China �insists North Korean asylum seekers are illegal migrants and not refugees,� and thus sends them home, �where many are reportedly forced into labor camps, tortured or even executed.� This has forced hundreds of thousands of refugees into nonperson status in Communist China.
PRC police often rape and then sell � that�s right, sell � female refugees (see 1/14 Update). In the case of Kim�s doctor, the consensus is his return to SCNK will certainly mean death.
COMMUNIST CHINA ADMITTING SCNK HAD URANIUM PROGRAM
Communist China is finally admitting, according to Japan�s Kyodo News Agency (cited by Cybercast News), that SCNK ��at least attempted� to enrich uranium.� This comes two years after the Stalinist regime admitted to having a program to weaponize uranium.
COMMUNIST CHINA WANTS CANADA TO GIVE SCNK REFUGEES BACK
Canada has, for now, refused Communist China�s request to hand over forty-four Stalinist-controlled northern Korea refugees in the Canadian Embassy. Communist Assistant Foreign Minister Shen Guofang actually had the audacity to say the PRC would �handle them in accordance with international law, domestic law and humanitarianism� (BBC).
Many refugees try to enter the Beijing embassies of democratic nations or third countries in the hope going from there to democratic Korea, and no longer worry about being seized by Communist police, who will even kill refugees to stop them (see 3/20/02, 5/8/02, 5/15/02, 5/22/02, 6/19/02, 7/31/02, 9/4/02, 9/11/02, 1/22/03, 7/14, 7/28 and 9/1 Updates).
AMERICAN SCHOOL IN SHANGHAI GIVES BACK NINE REFUGEES
Communist China had more success with the Shanghai American School, which, under a �pre-arranged contingency plan� (CNN), handed nine SCNK refugees over to PRC police. The school is run by American expatriates and �teaches a U.S. curriculum, typically to the children of American citizens.� The school obviously teaches appeasement well.
COMMUNISTS SHUT DOWN SOURCE OF COLUMN CRITICAL OF SCNK
Communist China has stopped publishing of Strategy and Management, in response to an article in the magazine ripping SCNK (see 9/1 Update). While the issue with the piece was never published, the article was printed in the ROK Korean Daily. Report: Epoch Times
OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS
PRC FOREIGN MINISTER SPARS WITH POWELL OVER ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN
Communist Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing �challenged continued sales of U.S. defensive weapons to Taiwan� (Voice of America via Epoch Times), calling them a violation of �international commitments.� Secretary of State Colin Powell � at the same press conference � defended America�s commitment to Taiwan. Also reporting: Washington Times
HU JINTAO LOOKS FOR HARD LINE ON TAIWAN AND U.S. TO WIN OVER PRC MILITARY
Having just taken over the critical post of Central Military Commission Chairman (see 9/22 Update), PRC President Hu Jintao appears to be leaning toward �a more hard-line stance on relations with the U.S. and with Taiwan� (CNN�s Willy Lam, Jamestown Foundation via Epoch Times) in order to keep the top Communist military leaders on his side.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CALLS ON PRC TO END FALUN GONG OUTRAGES IN U.S.
The House of Representatives unanimously passed Resolution 304, which called for an end to �the numerous physical assaults upon American Falun Gong practitioners by people with close ties to the Chinese government, and the death threats, burglaries, phone taps, fire-bombings, and surveillance endured by Americans who practice Falun Gong� (Epoch Times).
For more one the long arm of Communist persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in the U.S., see the 7/2/03, 4/7, and 7/7 Updates.
PRC PROMISES TO FLOAT CURRENCY, BUT STAYS SILENT ON TIMETABLE, AGAIN
Communist China repeated old promises to �abolish the fixed rate system that links its currency to the dollar, and allow financial markets to set the value of its currency� (VOA via Epoch Times). However, they also repeated their refusal to give a specific date for the end of the deliberate devaluation that has crushed U.S. manufacturing and our allies� exporters.
NBA TO HAVE TWO EXHIBITION GAMES IN COMMUNIST CHINA
Communist China will host two exhibition NBA games between the Houston Rockets and the Sacramento Kings. The games are, of course, to showcase Rockets center Yao Ming. Never mind what the regime the controls the host nation is doing to its own people, or against the United States. Report: Epoch Times
OTHER REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN) NEWS
TAIWAN PLANNING TO DEPLOY MISSILES TO COUNTER COMMUNIST CHINA
Lee Wen-chung, chairman of the Taiwanese Parliament�s defense committee, told Time Asia that the island democracy will �be able to begin mass production in two to five years� of missiles to counter the threat of Communist China�s 600 missiles pointed at Taiwan. Communist China, naturally, called this �clamoring for war.�
TAIWAN TELLS MATSU TO STOP SMUGGLING FOOD FROM PRC
Taiwan�s Council of Agriculture �urged Matsu residents Saturday not to smuggle agricultural and poultry products from mainland China� (CNA via Epoch Times). The bureau for the island democracy�s farm sector cited the very real fact of �many diseases communicable among both humans and animals and infested by certain pests� in the PRC.
NEWS ON THE VELVET CRACKDOWN (HONG KONG)
COMMUNIST CHINA DROPS MORE HINTS OF FUTURE MEDDLING IN CITY
A �new set of directives will be issued for the former British colony� (BBC) that makes clear the regime is looking �to take a more active role in the territory's affairs.� The news dovetails with the report in the last Update on the PRC�s plans to impose the hated �anti-subversion� law on the city by fiat.
NEW HONG KONG LEGISLATURE SWORN IN
Hong Kong�s new Legislative Council was sworn in today. The LegCo, as it is known in shorthand, includes 25 pro-democracy legislators out of 60. Only half of the seats were elected by the people; the rest were chosen by �functional constituencies� largely favorable to the Communists (see 9/15 Update). Report: BBC
CITY REGIME ORDERS TV STATIONS TO PLAY COMMUNIST CHINESE ANTHEM
The Communist-appointed Hong Kong regime �has decreed that local television stations must play the Chinese national anthem every evening before the news to boost patriotism� (United Press International via Washington Times). The move has already �been met by heavy public criticism,� as a �trivial sense of nationalism,� in the words of a local pundit.
TIBET NEWS
DALAI LAMA ENVOYS CALL TALKS WITH PRC �GOOD,� BUT COMMUNISTS KILL MONK
Representatives of the Dalai Lama called last week�s talks with Communist China (see last Update) �good� (Washington Post, fourth item) and �aimed at building contacts.� Meanwhile, PRC police �shot and killed the head of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery� (same link, next item) for demanding compensation �after allegedly being beaten in custody.�
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
COMMUNIST CHINA OFFERS TO PAY YUKOS� COSTS TO SHIP OIL
How desperate is Communist China to get the Russian oil that Yukos can no longer ship them (see 9/22 Update)? The China National Petroleum Corporation � the leading Communist-owned oil firm � �is prepared to pay Russian YUKOS Oil Company's rail transport bills next month� (Epoch Times), in order to ensure the oil is delivered.
PRC ALSO LOOKING TO LATIN AMERICA FOR OIL
Communist China is looking well beyond Russia in its quest for oil. The last Update detailed the PRC�s gaze to the Middle East, but the Communists are also looking to Latin America � in particular Ecuador and anti-American Venezuela (Greg Flakus, VOA via Epoch Times).
FIRE EXTINGUISHER FACTORY LEAVING WALES FOR COMMUNIST CHINA
Chubb Fire is closing its Rhondda (Wales) fire extinguisher factory and opening up a new one in Communist China. The Communist use of prison labor and refusal to allow for independent labor unions has depressed wages enough in this case to end 154 jobs in the south of Wales. Report: BBC
HUTCHISON WHAMPOA TELECOM SPIN-OFF FORCED TO LOWER IPO PRICE
Hutchison Whampoa, the conglomerate in charge of two container ports on the Panama Canal and owned by pro-PRC tycoon Li Ka-shing, has reduced the sale value of the initial public offering for its Hutchison Telecommunications subsidiary by 7%. HW will sell off shares of HT, but Li�s firm �intends to retain control of the new firm after its listing� (BBC).
HW came very close to taking control of Global Crossing � the only American private firm with a global fiber-optic network. The firm pulled out of the deal as the Treasury Department was examining its national security implications (see 5/7/03 Update).
INDIAN TROOPS JOIN COMMUNIST CELEBRATION
In a disturbing sign of warming ties between India and Communist China, fifty Indian soldiers joined their PRC counterparts �to mark China's national day� (BBC). India and Communist China fought a border war in 1962 � India lost 40,000 square miles � and have been regional rivals ever since. The border � joint celebrations aside � are still in dispute.
NEWS ON THE FALUN GONG WAR
PRACTITIONER BEATEN AND ARRESTED IN TIANANMEN SQUARE
A Falun Gong practitioner protesting the five-year-plus Communist persecution of his faith was �beaten and dragged into a police van for publicly demonstrating on Tiananmen Square during China�s October 1 National Day celebrations� (Epoch Times). The practitioner was �apparently beaten to the point of being comatose, as he failed to move from that point on.�
OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS NEWS
PRC REPORTERS FOR FOREIGN PRESS DEMAND RELEASE OF NEW YORK TIMES STAFFER
The China Foreign Correspondents Club, an organization for PRC citizens working for foreign press organizations, �wrote to Kong Quan, the spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, appealing for the release of Zhao Yan, an assistant for the New York Times Beijing branch� (VOA via Epoch Times).
Zhao �was arrested shortly after a media report indicated that Jiang Zemin would be stepping down as head of the military during the recent Communist Party enclave.� The group that called for his release �said that the arrest of Zhao could be interpreted as a gesture that threatens Chinese employees working for foreign media.�
CYBERDISSIDENT SENT TO JAIL FOR TWELVE YEARS
Communist China has sent Huang Jinqiu, who used the nom de cyber of Qing Shuijun, to prison for twelve years for �subversion of the state� (Radio Free Asia, via Epoch Times). Huang�s crime was to start an opposition party � the China Patriot Democracy Party.
GUANGDONG FARMERS CLASH WITH POLICE AFTER LAND SEIZURE
Another land seizure � this time in Guangdong Province � brought dozens of farmers into a clash with Communist police, who gave a dozen farmers �open head wounds� (Epoch Times). The cadres in Dalang village promised to buy the farmer�s land at over $20 per square meter. Of course, the cadres actually paid less than a third of that.
EPIDEMIC NEWS
PRC SAYS ITS FIGHTING AIDS, REMAINS SILENT ON HENAN BLOOD SCANDAL
Communist China is supposedly �taking up the growing challenge posed by HIV/AIDS� (UPI via Washington Times). However, the list of steps the PRC is taking again did not include accountability for the Henan cadres involved in the unhygienic blood donation scheme that infected one million people (see 9/4/02 and 9/25/02 Updates).
OTHER MAINLAND NEWS
PRC SAYS 29 MILLION IN POVERTY IN RURAL INTERIOR
Communist China admitted to �29 million� (CNA via Epoch Times) poor peasants in the PRC�s rural interior. However, �In all likelihood the real number is far higher.�
COMMUNISTS WARN EASTERN PROVINCES: MORE POWER SHORTAGES COMING
Communist China�s East China Power Grid has warned the area it serves (four provinces and Shanghai city) that �all likely to be hit by power shortages in the coming months� (BBC). A general power shortage which has plagued the region (see 12/10/03, 12/17/03, 3/31, 6/10, 6/16, 7/21, 8/5, 8/25, and last Updates) �will reach as much as 17m kilowatts this winter.�
GENDER IMBALANCE TO REACH THIRTY MILLION
Communist China admitted that its hideous �one child� policy will ensure a shortage of over 30 million women (Epoch Times) in, at most, 40 years. Last week, the PRC admitted that the �one child� policy � which has led to forced abortions, forced sterilizations, and infanticide (see 8/30/00, 8/8/01, 7/24/02, 8/5, and last Updates) � was not working.
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