| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China January 7, 2005 This Week�s Links will be the final China e-Lobby weekly newsletter. As with the Updates and Northern Korea Reports, the information and links normally there will be posted on the China e-Lobby blog, although non-newsletter pages, such as the Beijing Olympic Boycott, Nine Commentaries, etc., and all past newsletters will still be on the website. Thanks once more for your continued support. D.J. McGuire: Co-chair and President Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available here (or call 1-888-280-7715). The next Summer Olympics, in 2008, will take place in Beijing. Will the U.S. take part in a Communist Chinese version of the Munich Nazi propaganda event of 1936? Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Link of the Week Lin Bing, The Sound of Hope Radio (via Epoch Times) talks to Yan Xueshi, a former professor in Communist China and now a former member of the Chinese Communist Party. On the Nine Commentaries Xin Fei and Zheng Tingwei, Epoch Times, gauge the fallout from their newspaper�s dramatic expose of the Chinese Communist Party�s bloody and sordid history, as does Jason Loftus (also of the Epoch Times). The paper also reprinted comments about the PRC�s future at an American from on the Commentaries by Michael J. Horowitz, Director of The Hudson�s Institute Project for Civil Justice Reform, and Ethan Gutman, author of Losing the New China. On the State of the Workers in the Workers� State Simon Thomas, Epoch Times, details in column for the China Support Network the widespread use of slave labor in Communist China for � among other things � Christmas decorations. Benjamin Sand, Voice of America (via Epoch Times), examines the plight of women in the PRC�s rural interior. On Lu Decheng and Zhao Wendong A group of anti-Communists � led by the China Support Network and including yours truly - calls for Thailand not to send dissidents Lu Decheng and Zhao Wendong back to the PRC. On the effects of �One Child� No commentary on forced abortions, forced sterilizations, and murders that come with it; Martin Sieff, United Press International (via Washington Times), talks about Communist China�s future gender imbalance. More On Human Rights in Communist China Bob Fu, China Aid, details Communist China�s persecution of Christians, and roundly criticizes those who would focus on the very few violent believers as the cause � rather than the symptom � of said persecution, in the Epoch Times. On Communist China and the Rest of the World Jim Yardley, New York Times (via International Herald Tribune), examines the geopolitics of the tsunami disaster relief � and finds Communist China losing the public relations battle to the United States. Michael Moran, who writes the Brave New World column for MSNBC, goes one step further, ripping �the tin ear China showed for the suffering of its neighbors.� Meanwhile, Jonathan Kent, BBC, gives the latest installment of Communist China�s rise chafing its Asian neighbors. On Taiwan The editors of the Washington Times sound the warning on Communist China�s ambition to swallow up the island democracy, and its very disturbing moves to have said ambition fulfilled. Joseph Farah, founder of World Net Daily, calls on the U.S. to �call China's bluff� and make clear to the PRC �that their dreams of conquering Taiwan militarily will be their own undoing.� Terril Yue Jones, Los Angeles Times, reveals how Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., a firm owned in part by Shanghai cadres through a holding company, used industrial espionage to compete with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. On the lighter side, Chris Hogg, BBC, gives the view from the top of the Taipei 101, the world�s tallest building. The Weakest Link This week�s dubious honor goes to William Rees-Mogg (London Times) whose self-described �optimism� on the rise of Communist China is based upon this whopper: �The economic maturity of the new China has been accompanied by increasing political maturity.� Meanwhile, John Derbyshire, National Review Online (and Member since 2003) blasts Rees-Mogg. A close second was Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun, whose analysis of Communist China and the United States was mostly wrong and practically incoherent. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Miss an Update, Week's Links, or Northern 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. |