| Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our web site. Link of the Week Willy Wo-Lap Lam (CNN) looks at how Jiang Zemin managed to bump Li Ruihuan � the only leading player in Communist China who would not praise the outgoing PRC President to the skies � off the Politburo Standing Committee and stack it with his prot�g�s. More on Today�s Reshuffle John Pomfret, Washington Post, looks at Communist China as Jiang �is leaving the scene.� Overall, the piece is very weak. Pomfret doesn�t even care to mention that Jiang, far from �leaving the scene� will still be Chairman of the very powerful Central Military Commission. CNN and Tim Luard (BBC) have their own examinations of the reshuffle conference. None of them seem as informed as Lam (see last update). On Hu Jintao Damien McElroy (London Daily Telegraph) gives his profile of Hu Jintao, the new Communist Party chief, in a party whose apparatus is still largely under Jiang Zemin�s control. Tim Luard (BBC) also weighs in. On Communist China and the United States Myles Kantor, in Newsmax.com, expresses frustration at the �bipolar� Bush Administration policy, in particular why it seems to be so nice to Communist China and its leader, Bush�s Crawford guest Jiang Zemin. On the Global Internet Freedom Act Luciana Lopez, Washington Times, hears from some supporters and critics of the bill that would help fight dictatorships that block the internet from their own people, such as Communist China�s �Great Red Firewall.� Check out the latest on Communist China and the Terrorist War. Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, due out on Monday. 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 you happen to find to the same address. |