| Link of the Week: On the Phony War on Terrorism (East Turkestan) Ron Gluckman, in Asiaweek, reports from the region the Communists insist is home to legions of terrorists and Osama bin Laden supporters � East Turkestan. He finds that the Uighur population in the region bitterly anti-Communist China, due to the brutal Communist crackdown that was in full force long before September 11, but no opposition to the U.S. war on terrorism: �In fact, many wish it would be extended.� Gluckman ends his piece with advice for the U.S. from one student from East Turkestan, which was independent during World War II: �They should go on bombing. We just wish they would bomb China.� Note to members: the new term for the Communist crackdown on East Turkestan (�The Phony War on Terrorism�) is new, but not set in stone. Feel free to reply with your thoughts about it. On Taiwan�s Election William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, calls for greater U.S. support of democratic Taiwan and declares: �America's one-China policy is dead,� in the Washington Post. Damian Grammaticus, BBC, examines the Democratic Progressive Party�s stunning victory over the Nationalist Party in last weekend�s legislative elections. He finds that the Nationalist move toward warmer relations with Communist China after losing the ROC Presidency to the DPP�s Chen Shui-bian last year hurt it dearly. Mark Mitchell, of Time Asia, looks at the aftermath of the Nationalists� fall and the return of Lee Teng-hui, the ex-Nationalist former President who brought democracy to Taiwan, and is recasting himself as the anti-Communist watchdog for the Taiwanese people. The piece�s most memorable Lee quote: �Lee Teng-hui is the only one in the world who's not afraid of the Chinese communists.� Other Links Asiaweek looks at the effects the World Trade Organization will have on Communist China, and finds that the change, while dramatic, will likely not be the utopian opening its Western advocates predicted. CNN�s Willy Wo-Lap Lam looks at the �fifth generation� of Communist officials � the ones to take power after current PRC Vice President Hu Jintao et al take charge � and finds that even they will be unlikely to bring full democracy to the Chinese people. Henry Chu, of the Los Angeles Times, reports on the Communist internal migration restrictions � �one of the world's biggest experiments in social control� � and how it turns millions of Chinese simply looking for a better life into �complete nonentities: invisible and unacknowledged, officially null and void.� Jay Nordlinger, in National Review Online, writes in two his �Impromptus� column (December 4, near the end of the column and December 6, in the middle) about stories from readers trying to avoid purchasing products made in Communist China. John Derbyshire, also in National Review Online, reminds his readers that a dictatorial regime such as Communist China cannot provide for a modern economy, no matter what smoke and mirrors they try. Communist China, the Taliban, and the Terrorist War: a chronicle of Communist China�s actions after the terrorist attack. Access it on our web site, either directly or via our main 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]. |