| 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. Those who wish to e-sign the petition can do so at the following page (part of the China e-Lobby web site). CHINA E-LOBBY UPDATE: AUGUST 8, 2001 TOP STORY: RURAL COMMUNIST COUNTY TOLD TO CONDUCT 20,000 ABORTIONS AND STERILIZATIONS IN NEXT FIVE MONTHS TO COMPLY WITH �ONE CHILD� POLICY There are few occasions where pro-lifers and pro-choicers can join arm in arm in solidarity � and almost all of them have something to do with the People�s Republic of China. The Communists did it again this week. A Guangdong province court has ordered � that�s right, ordered � Huaiji County to conduct 20,000 abortions and sterilizations by the end of the year due to the county�s flouting of the �one child� policy. Link: London Sunday Telegraph in the Washington Times County hospital officials expect the quota can only be met with a combination of forced abortions and forced post-birth sterilizations in the county. The local Communists are even buying ultrasound machines for the purpose of discovering and terminating unapproved pregnancies. Sadly, none of this is new. �Family planning� throughout the PRC routinely includes forced abortion, sterilization, and even infanticide. OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS NEWS CHINESE SCHOLARS LIVING ABROAD SILENCED BY COMMUNIST ARRESTS, THREATS Several Chinese scholars living abroad told The New York Times of arrests, and threats of arrest, for any Chinese abroad who criticizes the Communists. The chilling tale exposes the long arm of Communist China, stretching its dictatorship well outside its borders. Recently released U.S academic Gao Zhan (see below) confirmed this, saying she has to watch what she says about her ordeal to protect her relatives in the PRC. Links: The New York Times, Washington Post Editorial FROM THE FALUN GONG WAR: STATE-SANCTIONED VIOLENCE MAY BREAK MOVEMENT Falun Gong is suffering heavily under a massive Communist crackdown that includes routine and relentless beatings. The Washington Post reported that such beating, far from being just condoned, is being encouraged by the Communist leadership. The paper tracks the endless torture endured by those who follow Falun Gong, and says the intensity of it is �breaking� the movement. It was almost too painful even to read. Link: Washington Post JIANGXI PAPER BLOWS LID OF DEATH-ROW ORGAN HARVESTING COVER-UP; REPORTER FIRED The Communist practice of harvesting organs from death-row prisoners without their permission hit the national press last week. Today Family Weekly, in Jiangxi province, revealed the story of Fu Xinrong, executed for rape and murder. His sister is suing the province for selling his organs without permission. Other reports say the organ selling is so widespread it even includes kidnapping potential �donors.� Link: Washington Post However, the Communists did retaliate against one reporter, Metropolitan Consumption News� Yao Xiaohong, apparently firing him for his report on the story. Link: Washington Post DISSIDENT POET MA ZHE SET FREE Communist China freed Ma Zhe, a dissident poet and co-founder of China Cultural Renaissance, after reducing his sentence from five years to the 3� he had already served. Three other arrested with him for forming CCR, which �sought an end to government control over the work of writers and artists,� had served out their prison terms. Link: BBC OTHER MAINLAND NEWS HARD-LINE COMMUNISTS RACHETING UP ANTI-JIANG CAMPAIGN CNN�s Willy Wo-Lap Lam has reported that the hard-line Maoist faction of the Chinese Communist Party is so angry at Communist President Jiang Zemin�s announcement to allow businessmen into the party that they have actually gathered for a �rival meeting close to the Beidaihe resort.� The CCP hierarchy is holding its annual retreat in Beidaihe this week, and Lam says the leftists� meeting �has cast a big shadow.� Link: CNN - Lam 1 Jiang is angrily threatening those who are criticizing him. He has told the hard-line critics to �stop diatribes against the president or face punishment.� Lam noted the flap is staring to look like �the biggest rift among China 's leaders since the Tiananmen crisis in 1989.� Lam also noted that Jiang is in the midst of propagating a personality cult around himself �reminiscent of the worst excesses of the Cultural Revolution.� Links: CNN - Lam 2, CNN - Lam 3 Despite the flak, Jiang is feeling good about his prospects. The Washington Post reports talk that Jiang may even hang on to his post as General Secretary of the CCP, in addition to his long sought after desire to remain chairman of the Central Military Commission, the post from which Deng Xiaoping wielded his power behind the throne. Link: Washington Post TWO MAJOR INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS HIGHLIGHT COMMUNISTS� HORRIBLE SAFETY RECORD In southern Communist China, two major accidents have illuminated how Communists look the other way when it comes to industrial safety. Last month, hundreds on miners died in a flooded mine shaft in Guangxi province, but local Communists took payoffs to cover up the tragedy for weeks. Meanwhile, a factory built in violation of safety standards collapsed in Zhejiang province, trapping over 100. Links: BBC - mine, CNN - factory FARMERS STILL SUFFER UNDER ONEROUS AND ILLEGAL GOVERNMENT CHARGES Willy Wo-Lap Lam (CNN) looks once again at the checkered history of �rural reform,� the attempt by Communist Premier Zhu Rongji to end onerous and �theoretically illegal� excess fees imposed on farmers, who make up over 2/3 of the PRC�s inhabitants. Farmers are stuck with, in some cases, �up to 60 different fees and levies. Link: CNN - Lam COMMUNIST MILITARY VOWS TO SWALLOW UP TAIWAN On the 74th anniversary of the founding of the People�s Liberation Army, PRC Defense Minister Chi Haotian vowed that �any schemes to block the reunification of the motherland will not succeed� and once again refused to rule out an invasion of the island democracy. Meanwhile, PLA army exercises near the ROC, the biggest and longest Communist exercises ever conducted across the Taiwan Strait, continued. Link: CNN AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS COMMUNIST CHINA LAUNCHES MILITARY SATELLITE Communist China has launched a military satellite, disguised as an �earth monitoring system,� possibly to track and target American forces in the region. The satellite�s advanced imaging technology has led analysts to believe the PRC benefited from yet another technology transfer, this time from Brazil. Link: Washington Times COMMUNISTS STILL SELLING MISSILES TO PAKISTAN; US THREATENS SANCTIONS Communist China is still selling missile parts to Pakistan, despite a myriad of agreements not to do so. The Washington Times reports that the PRC-owned China National Machinery & Equipment Import & Export Corporation (CMEC) sold Pakistan components for its Shaheen-1 and Shaheen-2 missile programs. The latest shipment to the South Asian military dictatorship arrived in May. Link: Washington Times The Bush Administration announced that if �expert talks� between the U.S. and PRC don�t lead to a halt in the weapons sales to states such as Iran, Pakistan, Libya, North Korea and Iraq, economic sanctions against Communist China will be imposed. Past talks have usually led to widely hailed agreements quickly violated by Beijing. Link: Washington Times Sen. Joseph Biden (Democrat � Delaware), the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, heard President Jiang Zemin�s denial of any proliferation violations. Biden takes a far softer line than his predecessor � North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms � but he was not swayed, saying, �We agreed to disagree on that point.� He also said the weapons sales bolstered support for missile defense in the U.S. Link: BBC REPORT: INVESTIGATION OF WEN HO LEE NOT RACIST An investigation led by Randy Bellows, a federal prosecutor found that charges of racial bias in the probe of scientist Wen Ho Lee were �without merit.� Lee was a scientist at Los Alamos laboratory who admitted copying classified material illegally. The investigation did find many flaws in the widely panned investigation. Link: Washington Post The probe began as the Cox Committee began investigating whether Communist China had stolen top-secret nuclear weapons information from the U.S. Notra Trulock III, who first investigated the matter for the Energy Department and watched nearly all his work be ignored � except for the focus on Lee � found himself accused of racism by Lee and others, and his career is practically in ruins. Link to Cox report COLIN POWELL CALLS COMMUNIST CHINA �A FRIEND, NOT AN ADVERSARY� Secretary of State Colin Powell ended his trip to Beijing last week by having the audacity to call Communist China �a friend, not an enemy.� Powell let loose the line while announcing the two governments would hold a �no holds barred� talk on human rights �later in the year,� as well as the aforementioned talks on the PRC�s repeated violations of promises not to sell weapons and military technology to rogue states. Links: BBC � Powell�s �friend� comment, BBC � human rights talks planned, Washington Post COMMUNISTS EDIT POWELL INTERVIEW ON STATE-RUN TELEVISION Despite Powell�s �friendly� comments, the U.S. found that nothing could satisfy the PRC. The State Department protested Beijing�s deletion of parts of Powell�s comments on its state-run television broadcast. The deleted portions were on � surprise! � human rights and Taiwan. The Communists deny anything underhanded occurred, and let Powell�s full interview reach their media web site unabridged. Links: CNN � U.S. protest, CNN � PRC response, Washington Times PACIFIC ALLIANCE DISCUSSED, CABINET DIFFERENCES DENIED Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld also talked with Australia about increasing military cooperation between the two nations, as well as with South Korea and Japan, although a formal alliance �replicating NATO� was ruled out. Rumsfeld also denied any difference between himself and Powell on the PRC, despite the fact that he, Rumsfeld, tends to use more hawkish language concerning Beijing. Link: Washington Times CODE RED STRIKES AGAIN, �CODE RED II� AND �CODE RED III� HIT PRC MACHINES The �Code Red� computer worm, believed to have come from Communist China thanks to its boast �Hacked by Chinese,� is on the move again, infecting Windows NT and Windows 2000 servers. Over 150,000 computers have already been hit, and the Pentagon has had to shut down some of its web sites. Links: Washington Post The Code Red worm, whose purpose is to launch �denial of service� attacks on the White House, �lies dormant� in Chinese-language systems. However, two more sinister worms � known as �Code Red II� and �Code Red III� � have hit several systems in the PRC, and have no apparent interest in the White House as yet. Despite the names, no one is entirely as to source of the two worms. Link: CNN COMMUNISTS RELEASE GAO ZHAN, QIN GUANGGUANG, ANOTHER AMERICAN CHARGED Hours after the release of the last update, Communist China announced the granting of medical parole to American residents Gao Zhan and Qin Guangguang, whom it had convicted of �spying for Taiwan� and sentenced to ten-year prison terms. Gao left Communist China Thursday morning. Qin chose to stay in the PRC, where he has worked for the last several years. Links: Washington Times, CNN, BBC, Washington Post Gao spoke to the media once she was in Washington, and even then revealed the insidious nature of the Communist regime, even as she denied her ridiculous conviction as a �spy.� She told the press she is �very concerned about my family, so I have been very careful in selecting the words that I am using. I am trying not to make any more trouble for my family back there.� Links: BBC, Washington Post, Washington Times The case once again revealed the Communist Chinese legal system that operates behind the fa�ade of the �rule of law.� It has also emphasized �an ominous message to ethnic Chinese academics with links abroad in country where the distinctions between information in the public domain and state secrets is often dangerously blurred.� Link: CNN Meanwhile, the Communists formally charged Wu Jianmin, an American academic of Chinese birth, with �endangering national security.� The Information Center on Human Rights and Democracy reported the charge, but had not other details to give. Wu may have had some involvement in The Tiananmen Papers, the collection of documents that detailed the Communists� decision to massacre the student protestors in 1989. Links: CNN � Wu, CNN � arrest analysis Li Shoamin returns to Hong Kong. See Hong Kong News. U.S. ARMY STILL HAS PRC-MADE BERETS After banning over 600,000 black berets made in Communist China, the U.S. Army can�t get rid of them. All attempts to sell the berets have fallen through, and selling to surplus stores was ruled out because �the made-in-China hats would probably end up on the heads of U.S. soldiers.� Link: Washington Times INTERNATIONAL NEWS COMMUNISTS TAKE CENSOR�S PEN TO SINGAPORE LEADER�S MEMOIRS Lee Kuan Yew, the former leader and �father� of Singapore, is considered to be a friend of Communist China. That did not stop the Communists from holding up publication of the second volume of his memoirs. Lee apparently says in the volume that �communism hurt China,� and he is critical of Tiananmen butcher Li Peng. The unedited version is already out in Taiwan. Link: Washington Post REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN) NEWS COMMUNIST THREATEN ROC AGAINST JOINT MISSILE DEFENSE WITH U.S., JAPAN Communist China responded to ROC President Chen Shui-bian�s proposal for a joint missile defense among the U.S., Taiwan, and Japan, which he proposed on last month, with more threats. Saying Chen was �playing with fire,� the PRC, in the military newspaper Liberation Army Daily, reissued is threat of force against �dividing the motherland.� Link: Washington Times NATIONALISTS IN SEARCH OF �PARTY SOUL,� DROP COMMUNIST CONFEDERATION IDEA Stung by the defection of widely popular ex-President Lee Teng-hui, The Kuomintang (Nationalist) Party dropped a plan for economic confederation with Communist China �to avoid splitting its ranks.� Party leader Lien Chan, who finished a distant third in last year�s presidential election, vowed to �find the party�s soul� in time for legislative elections at the end of this year. Link: CNN HONG KONG NEWS LI SHAOMIN RETURNS TO CITY, KEEPS JOB; PRO-COMMUNISTS IRATE Professor Li Shaomin, the U.S. citizen arrested for being a �spy� in February and deported from the mainland last month, returned to Hong Kong last week. Hong Kong�s decision to let Li back into the city aroused the ire of Communist sympathizers, but Martin Lee, head of the HK Democratic Party, called Mr. Li�s return �good news.� In more good news, Hong Kong City University announced it would not fire Li. Links: CNN � Li�s return, CNN � Li keeps job, Washington Post XINJIANG/EAST TURKESTAN NEWS MASSIVE WAR GAMES UNDERWAY The Communist People�s Liberation Army is conducting a major military exercise, with �several hundred armored personnel carriers, tanks and other military vehicles,� in the region last week. The exercise lasted four days. The region is home to millions of Uighur Muslims chafing under a Communist crackdown, including the execution of political prisoner, according to Amnesty International. Link: Washington Times No news from Tibet this week. Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested in receiving this. Anyone who wishes to join can send his/her name and e-mail address to [email protected]. Please visit our web site. |