| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China October 8, 2004 Communist China and Oil-for-food: This quarter is digging through the Duelfer Report to determine which �entities� received oil vouchers from Saddam Hussein. The People�s Republic already has an extensive history of support for Saddam (see 2/21/01, 2/28/01, 3/7/01, 3/14/01, 3/21/01, 12/18/02, 2/5/03, 3/19/03, 4/9/03, 12/17/03, and last Updates). As more details are found, they will be linked via the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available: here, at Amazon, 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 Qi Zhifeng, Voice of America (via Epoch Times), looks below the surface of anti-Japan sentiment in Communist China, and finds the regime itself to blame in many ways. On Hu Jintao Pan Hu, a Washingtonian �active in the Chinese dissident community� (the quotes are to cite his words, not denigrate them), uses a National Review Online column to throw more cold water on the Hu-as-great-reformer myopia that afflicts so many analysts. On the State of the Workers in the Workers� State Edward Cody, Washington Post, examines one of the myriad examples of Communist cadres seizing land, kicking out the original inhabitants, siphoning compensation money to line their pockets, and arresting anyone who leads local resistance against them. Cody�s case studies are in Fujian and Guangdong Provinces. On the Falun Gong War Zou Yanjie, a practitioner in Jiling Province, lost his feet due to frostbite in an attempt to escape his Communist captors and torturers. He told history to the Epoch Times. James Fish, also in the Epoch Times, has another report from New York (see also last Week�s Links). More on Human Rights in Communist China Zhang Lin, Epoch Times, slams Google for its willingness to serve as Communist China�s internet censor (see also last Week�s Links). Other Links on Communist China Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun, notes the weak foundation under the supposedly strong economy in Communist China. The editors of the Epoch Times lament the destruction of the colorful �Old Beijing� by development-crazed Communists. On Stalinist-Controlled Northern Korea Kate Pound Dawson, Voice of America (via Epoch Times) talks to analysts who remind us that Communist China is helping itself, not the U.S., in regards to SCNK�s nuclear ambitions. On Taiwan David R. Combs, Washington Times, finishes the profile of ROC de facto Ambassador David Lee that Times colleague James Morrison began (see last Week�s Links). On the Velvet Crackdown (Hong Kong) Paul Jackson, whose Calgary Sun columns are usually a breath of fresh air on Communist China, falls down on the job in his description of Hong Kong. Chaim Estulun, Time Asia, interviews Jackie Hung, the leading organizer of the �anti-subversion� law protests on July 1, 2003 (see 7/11/03 Week�s Links). Sign up for the next Northern Korea Report (next edition goes out on Tuesday). 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. |