| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China April 9, 2004 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. Link of the Week The editors of the Christian Science Monitor take the prize for ripping the Communists� �reneging on an agreement to let Hong Kong largely run itself.� On Hong Kong The editors of the Washington Post had their own criticism for one country, one-and-a-half systems. Anthony Spaeth, Time Asia, examines the PRC�s �interpretation� move: �Under the Basic Law and the territory's own statutes . . . (freedom of speech and expression) . . . are their rights. Until, that is, someone in Beijing decides to do some more �interpretation.�" On Human Rights in Communist China Sima Tai, Epoch Times, reveals why Communist China continues to lie about the Tiananmen Square massacre. Helen Chantry, Epoch Times, examines what the PRC calls �crowd control.� Edward Cody, Washington Post, examines the chilling effects of the crackdown against the Southern Metropolis Daily. Mount Hu eulogizes Zhao Pinlu on the China Support Network. CSN also reprinted speeches from four activists at the Washington, DC rally in support of an American resolution to the United Nations Human Right Commission condemning the PRC�s human rights abuses: CSN Executive Director John Kusumi, Free China Movement Executive Director Shengde Lian, Epoch Times Washington bureau chief Sen Nieh, and yours truly. On the State of Workers in the Workers� State Liu Lu, Epoch Times, finds the ultimate irony: Korean firms in Communist China forced to treat their workers fairly by some of the American companies that deal with them. Si Matai, of Chinascope.org (not to be confused with yours truly�s short-lived radio program), details the Communists� complete lack of concern for their own people, particularly in rural areas, also in the Epoch Times. On Taiwan If you think Mark J. Valencia�s Washington Times piece on Taiwan�s election is biased towards the defeated pan-blues, well, that�s because it is. Brian Marple, Epoch Times, says the election has shown him, �democratic governance and an engaged citizenry are here to stay.� Meanwhile, Senator George Allen (R-Virginia) writes in the Washington Times in praise of the Taiwan Relations Act, although his next-to-last line � �We will safeguard the freedom of Taiwan and we will build our relationship with China� � is a bit worrying. On Communist China and the United States Lev Navrozov strikes the bell again on the nanotechnology race, and America�s refusal to face it, in his weekly Newsmax column. Michael O�Hanlon, unwittingly, reinforces Navrozov�s point about a lack of concern regarding the Communist Chinese threat with this Washington Times piece of American troop deployments, in which Communist China is never mentioned. The Hindustan Times comments on Communist China�s attempt to counter �the growing Indo-U.S. military partnership.� Ellen Bork, Deputy Director of the Project for the New American Century, finds the growing ties between Communist China and Europe disturbing, but notes that little can be done until the U.S. adopts �a realistic China policy.� On the �One Child� Policy Louisa Lim, BBC, is the latest to take note of how �one child� is leading to a demographic disaster for Communist China. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. 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. |