| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China November 7, 2003 Yours truly has detailed Communist China�s history of aiding terrorist states, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, and al Qaeda, in my new book, Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror, soon to be available for order here, and later at Amazon and other online retail sites. � D.J. McGuire Link of the Week William R. Hawkins, of the U.S. Business and Industry Council, does it again with another terrific Washington Times column on how Communist China�s deliberate currency devaluation and other trade practices are �part of China's drive to become the strongest economy in Asia and to overturn the global balance of power that currently favors the United States.� On Communist China, Oil, and Terrorism Parapundit founder Randall Parker (Member since 2003), details Communist China�s growing appetite for oil, and what it means for the world economy and the war against terror. Check out this story and more on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. More On Communist China and Trade The editors of the Washington Times, long a supporter of free trade with Communist China, are starting to �get it.� They take note of the Communists� refusal to adhere to its trade agreements, including the WTO deal that won the PRC Permanent Normal Trade Relations, and belittle �the mainstream, free-trade-at-any price media.� Hear, hear. Meanwhile, Irwin M. Stelzer sees the Bush Administration�s plan on Communist China�s deliberately devalued currency as �trying to buy time until Bush is safely reinstalled in the White House.� Stelzer notes Communist China�s large buying of Treasury bonds, but does not bring national security issues into his Weekly Standard column. Finally, Bruce Bartlett, National Review Online, was kind enough to display his tunnel vision on the subject in his second paragraph: �The only reason anyone cares about China's trade is because they operate within a mercantilist framework.� Bartlett�s complete lack of concern over national security grows ever more galling. On Communist China�s Space Program Notra Trulock, from the AIM Report, details how the U.S. helped Communist China�s space program, and why the Communist military�s plans for space are a danger to us, in Newsmax. On Corruption in Communist China Peter Goodspeed, National Post (Cdn.), gives a summary of the rise and fall of both corrupt �private� businessman Zhou Zhengyi, and the lawyer who exposed him, Zeng Enchong (see also 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, and 10/29 Updates). On Hong Kong Chris Hogg, BBC, notes the 100th birthday of the South China Morning Post, without noting how its attempt to curry favor with Communist China led to the high-profile resignation of Willy Wo-Lap Lam, who is now with CNN (see 11/8/00 Update). Hogg also has a quick summary of the state of democracy in Hong Kong. More on the Late Madame Chiang Pico Iyer offers this eulogy in Time Asia. Barry Farber, of Newsmax, has this take on her life. On Communist China and Pakistan Tim Luard, BBC, examines Communist China�s friendship with Pakistan. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North 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. |