| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China December 10, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available here (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 The editors of the Epoch Times translate Part II of their seminal Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party (see last Week�s Links for Part I). On Taiwan Neil Gough, Time Asia, examines the electoral battle between the anti-Communist �pan-greens,� and the foundering �pan-blues� (full disclosure: yours truly endorsed the �pan-greens� for tomorrow�s election in the China Support Network). Chris Hogg, BBC, and Luis Ramirez, Voice of America (via Epoch Times) also examine what�s at stake in tomorrow�s vote. Richard W. Hartzell, Epoch Times, has a convoluted and Pollyannish explanation and defense for Secretary of State Colin Powell�s unfortunate choice of words on Taiwan. Hartzell argues that Taiwan is actually �foreign territory under the dominion of the United States,� which would be news to everyone in the Bush Administration, let alone the rest of the country. Maureen Zebian, Epoch Times, notes the fifty-fifth anniversary of the anti-Communist consolidation of Taiwan with a brief biography of Chiang Kai-shek. More on Communist China and the United States Dan Blumenthal, American Enterprise Institute, calls on the Bush Administration to see Communist China as it really is, and �develop a coherent approach to China that accounts for new strategic realities,� in the Washington Post. Mary Hennock, BBC, examines the ramifications of the Lenovo-IBM deal (see last Update). On Communist China and the European Union Arms Embargo Ellen Bork, of the Project for the New American Century, praised Germany�s Bundestag for defying its own leader and calling for the European Union to keep its arms embargo against the PRC intact, in Der Tagesspiegel (Germany, see also last Update). Fabian�s Hammer notes the continuing Communist human rights abuses, which inspired the embargo in the first place. Gary Schmidtt, also on PNAC, rips said leader, Chancellor Gerhardt Schroeder, for his continued opposition to the arms ban. The editors of the Washington Times blast Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac for their joint push to lift the embargo, as does yours truly and the China Support Network�s John Kusumi, both in the Epoch Times. More on Communist China and the Rest of the World The Nation (Thailand, via Washington Times), notes the PRC�s growing ties to the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Kevin Steele, Western Standard (Canada), has a column on the PRC buyout of Noranda � echo chamber alert: yours truly is cited a few times (see also 10/28 Update). On the State of the Workers in the Workers� State Yours truly has an Epoch Times piece on the Hanyuan massacre (see 11/10, 11/17, 11/24, and 12/1 Updates) and what it means for the fools who still believe Hu Jintao is a �reformer.� Francis Markus, BBC, comments on the horrendous state of health care in Communist China. Mary Hennock, also from the BBC, examines how the combination of Beijing�s thirst for energy and local cadres� corrupt greed has led to mine conditions so dangerous �that coal cost the lives of 15 miners a day in the first nine months of this year� (See also last Week�s Links). Wan Ping, Epoch Times, details the death toll in the PRC mining industry. On Communist China's "Enron� The collapse and scandal of Communist-owned China Aviation Oil is reverberating across Wall Street and other financial districts, as Bloomberg�s William Pesek, Jr., documents. Yoolim Lee and Jasmine Yap, also of Bloomberg, weigh in on what Pesek called �a Chinese Enron.� On AIDS (Sort of) Edward Cody, Washington Post, has a column on what appears to be an acceptance of the danger of AIDS by Communist China. However, neither the Communist-led blood-drive scandal of Henan Province (which infected one million) nor the actual treatment of the suffering by the Communists (see last Week�s Links) earns Cody�s attention in this weak piece. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the next Northern Korea Report (out on Monday). 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. |