| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China July 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 Sharon Kilarski details the Communist China�s history of Communist China�s use of gangsters to do their dirty work abroad. Her Epoch Times piece documents how the People�s Republic has turned ethnic Chinese associations overseas into de facto enforcers � by whatever means necessary � of the Communist Party line. More On the Falun Gong Shooting Benjamin Hurley, Epoch Times, interviews practitioner Cheezong Lee (a.k.a. Grant Lu). Lee was a passenger in the car driven by shooting victim David Liang (see last Week�s Links). Sound of Hope Radio (via Epoch Times) interviews analyst Ling Feng for his view, and also talks to one of the victims, who naturally is too scared to identify himself beyond �Mr. Wang.� The editors of the Epoch Times note the strong contrast between Communist China�s full court press on the violent attack in Gwadar, Pakistan (see 5/5 Update) and its complete lack of response to the South Africa shooting. The Falun Dafa Information Center (via Epoch Times) documents how the long arm of Communist repression against the group reached around the world last year. Thai Ton, Epoch Times, also weighs in on the Communists� sordid history against the spiritual movement. On Zeng Qinghong The Falun Gong shooting has turned the spotlight on Communist Vice President Zeng Qinghong. The editors of the Epoch Times have four pieces on Zeng: his rise to power, what he has done to hold it, how the shooting and the Hong Kong march could affect his position, and what the shooting could mean for his patron: Jiang Zemin. On �China�s Honest Doctor� That�s what the editors of the Washington Post called Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the SARS whistleblower-turned-political prisoner for his insistence that the Tiananmen Square massacre was a mistake (see last Update). More on Human Rights in Communist China Not even writers praising Communist China can avoid the exacto knife of the censor. A web poster named �D.H.� had this to say to Jacob Sullum (in the Washington Times): �I wrote an article praising less censorship in China and it got censored. I hereby retract my praise.� Shengde Lian, head of the Free China Movement, calls for the liberation of his homeland (speech transcript from China Support Network). Joel Miller, World Net Daily, details Communist China�s persecution of dissident activists and reporters. On the Velvet Crackdown (Hong Kong) Anthony Spaeth, Time Asia, observes the Communist reaction from the half-million marchers in Hong Kong last week. The BBC gauged the reaction of the local press (naturally, all the pro-Communist newspapers blasted the marchers). Taiwan�s Central News Agency (via Epoch Times) also took the pulse of the city�s media. Freedom Times (via Epoch Times) details Communist China�s broken promises to Hong Kong. Chris Hogg, BBC, examines what the future could hold for the city, and what it could mean for the real target of �one country, two systems�: Taiwan. On Tibet The Dalai Lama, Tibet�s spiritual leader, turned 69 on Tuesday. The China Support Network used the occasion to call for an end to the Communist persecution in Tibet. Skip Shaputnic and Dorothy Berger, of San Diego Friends of Tibet, call on the world to act against Communist China�s destruction of the occupied nation. On Communist China and Iraq Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Robert Alt, National Review Online, visits Iraq, meets an anti-Communist Chinese journalist who likes what he sees of the American involvement, and concludes: �Anyone who wonders why America's efforts in Iraq are important need only talk to Mr. Wu. You see, the world is watching. China is watching (emphasis in original).� On The Space Race Sun Laiyan, head of the PRC�s China National Space Administration, talks to the BBC about the regime�s plans for the future (see also last Update). More on Communist China and the United States Lev Navrozov, Newsmax, wonders if a Fahrenheit 9/11-like film on Communist China�s threat to the U.S. would shake the elite �conspiracy of silence� on the PRC. Harry Wu, of the Laogai Research Foundation, calls on Congress to reject funding for the United Nations Population Fund so long as it continues to cooperate with the PRC authors of �one child,� in NRO. On the 2008 Olympiad Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. John Kusumi, Executive Director of the China Support Network (and member since 2003) calls for the Olympics to be taken out of Communist China. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. 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. |