| Links of the Week Gary Schmitt, of the Project for a New American Century, sticks up for President Chen and whacks the �one China� policy of the U.S., in reaction to Chen�s comments last week over a law regarding a referendum of formal independence for the island democracy. The editors of the Canadian National Post called on the West to �stand up for Taiwan.� There�s still time to contact the President and tell him not to appoint pro-PRC Doug Paal as de facto ambassador to Taiwan. More On Taiwan Helen Leavey, BBC, examines the reaction in Taiwan to President Chen Shui-bian�s speech to Taiwanese in Tokyo, and its anti-Communist, pro-independence rhetoric. The BBC also had a biography of Chen. John Hill examines the military balance across the Taiwan Straits in the BBC. On the coming Communist reshuffle Now that PRC President Jiang Zemin is angling to keep his post as Communist Party General Secretary, people are taking a closer look at his prot�g�, Zeng Qinghong. Willy Wo-Lap Lam (CNN) has a biography of Zeng, along with an analysis of where the reshuffle players are. On the state of workers in the Workers� State Philip Pan, Washington Post, reveals the hazards of working in the interior of Communist China through the story of Wang Xiao, a laborer in a sneaker factory now paralyzed. The �reforms� in the PRC do not extend to allowing any union other than the Communist one, thus workers are dependent upon a �union� tied to the very officials taking bribes and skirting workplace safety laws. On UNFPA and �One child� Stephen Moore, senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute, responds to David Broder�s blast of President Bush for blocking fund to the UN Population Fund due its work in Communist China and its hideous �one child� policy. In his letter to the Washington Post, Moore rips the PRC policy, calling it �the debasement of human dignity on a grand scale.� Check out the latest on Communist China and the Terrorist War. Sign up for the North Korea Report; the next issue comes out on Monday. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our web site. 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. |