| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China May 9, 2003 Link of the Week Chen Shui-bian, elected President of the Republic of China (Taiwan), calls on the World Health Organization to admit Taiwan as an observer, and specifically cites his nation�s widely praised reaction to SARS as evidence for the island democracy�s bid, in the Washington Post. More On Taiwan, SARS, and the WHO Gary Schmitt, of the Project for the New American Century, rightly calls the fact that the island democracy is banned from the World Health Organization �a scandal,� and calls upon the U.S. to more actively push for Taiwan�s admittance into the WHO. On Communist China and SARS Lev Nazarov, Newsmax, probes the possibility of SARS as a Communist biological weapon. Ian Johnson, Wall Street Journal, reveals how SARS, and the Communist secrecy regarding same, has led to �a confidence crisis,� because it has become �proof that the current system doesn't work.� Friends of Falun Gong reprinted the story; link courtesy Susan Prager, member since 2003. Lee Tuo-tzu, in the Taipei Times, details Communist China�s statistical problem, i.e., they can�t create accurate ones, and how it has affected and been affected by SARS. Richard Kagan, a history professor at Hamline University, notes how Communist China�s abysmal treatment of human rights led to the SARS disaster, in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Links courtesy Susan Prager). John Pomfret, Washington Post, profile new PRC Health Minister Wu Yi, the Communists latest point woman on SARS. Nick Mackie, BBC, finds that SARS has even damaged tourism in place with no victims, such as Chongqing. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC, explores the damage to the Communists from SARS within the PRC, and doesn�t find much, yet. Matthew Forney and Hannah Beech, Time Asia, also examine the continuing economic and political fallout from the disease, including the risks to the powers that be from the epidemic. On Communist China and AIDS Remember AIDS, the �old� disease massively covered up by the Communists (and thanks to �government-sanctioned blood-buying stations from the mid-1980s through the mid-'90s,� caused by them)? Gady Epstein, Baltimore Sun, remembers (Link courtesy Susan Prager). On North Korean Refugees Sent Back from Communist China Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI religion editor, examines the sickening torture by North Korea of Christians and those caught in Communist China, which sends back any refugee it finds to its Stalinist ally, in Newsmax. Mourning Mike Jendrzejczyk The editors of the Washington Post mourn the passing of Mike Jendrzejczyk, the Asia director of Human Rights Watch. Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, sent out every Monday. Check out the latest on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our home page. 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 or North Korea that you happen to find to the same address. |