| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China September 10, 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 Gu Chuan, Epoch Times, takes the prize for this piece on how dictators� manipulate sporting events for their own ends. 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. On the Hong Kong Elections Anthony Spaeth, of Time Asia, and Nicholas Kralev, in the Washington Times, weigh in on Sunday�s elections for half of the Legislative Council. Chris Hogg, BBC, has the best quote � from Spike magazine publisher Steve Vines: �Elections in Hong Kong are bizarre, because all the people are called to do is elect an opposition.� The China Support Network was kind enough to print a column by yours truly on the upcoming Hong Kong elections. On Communist China and the United States Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post, examines the counterfeiting of American intellectual property prevalent throughout Communist China, and how the PRC is �managing,� rather than fighting, the problem. Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com editor, wonders in National Review Online where America�s pro-choice groups are on Communist China�s horrific �one child� policy. On Communist China and the United Kingdom Rhun ap Iorwerth, BBC Wales, examines how Wales hopes to become more economically dependent on Communist China. On Tibet Louisa Lim, BBC, examines the economic rise of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, and how the Tibetans themselves have been sidelined by it. On the State of Workers in the Workers� State Heide B. Malhotra, Epoch Times, details the extensive, and hidden, unemployment and labor abuses in Communist China. Books and Movies Brian Marple, Epoch Times, and Elbert Ventura, in The New Republic, have harsh words for the movie Hero, which both find to be an �apologia for authoritarianism.� Stephen Gregory, Epoch Times, is the latest to review, and appreciate, Losing the New China: a Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal by Ethan Guttman. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the next North Korea Report (out on Monday). Miss an Update, Week's Links, or 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. |