| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China July 11, 2003 RALLY FOR FALUN GONG: For those of you in the Washington, D.C. area, or anyone else who�d like to make the trip, Friends of Falun Gong is holding a rally in support of the spiritual movement on Tuesday, July 22 on the Lower West Terrace Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. More detailed information on the day�s events can be found here. Links of the Week By a hair, it goes to Joan Maltese, ex-correspondent for China Central Television. Maltese details in Newsmax (courtesy Susan Prager, Member since 2003) what passes as TV �news� in Communist China: control of what is �news�, almost completely ignorant employees, and making the Communists look good at all costs, including the truth. She concludes with a scathing indictment of CCTV. On North Korea Randall Parker (Parapundit founder and Member since 2003), details how Communist China has helped, and will continue to help, North Korea � and not the United States � when it comes to the Stalinists� trade in weapons with terrorist states, and any other buyer. Sign up for the North Korea Report before the next edition is sent on Monday. On Communist China and the Axis of Evil One of the pieces Parker cites, a Time Asia column by John Larkin and Donald MacIntyre, details the North�s recent arms ties to Iran, the efforts of the U.S. and others in the Proliferation Security Initiative to stop it, and how unhelpful Communist China is. On Hong Kong Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN, gives an excellent thumbnail sketch of the political situation in Hong Kong, and why despite �one mishap after another� for over six years, Communist-appointed leader Tung Chee-hwa is not going anywhere. Claudia Rosett, in the Wall Street Journal, praises the Hong Kong people, and hopes the democracy bug will spread to the rest of the PRC (link courtesy Diane Roberts, Member since 2003). The editors of the Washington Times also have high praise for the people of the city, and share Rosett�s hopes � albeit with little more cautiously. Virginia Gidley-Kitchin, BBC, gives her analysis of the political situation in the city. E.J. Dionne, Washington Post, uses his July 4 column to compare America�s freedoms to those rapidly fading in Hong Kong, and calls on the U.S. to stand up for the people fighting for freedom in Communist China. Andre Stuttaford (Columnist for National Review Online and Member since 2002), found this website from Legislative Councillor Cyd Ho on Article 23, the �anti-subversion� bill, and the erosion of freedom in Hong Kong. On Human Rights in Communist China John Kamm, executive director of the Dui Hua Foundation, puts the spotlight on the brave souls who have formed opposition political parties in Communist China � and what the Communists have done silence them � including imprisonment in �psychiatric facilities,� in the Washington Post. On the Communist Party and the Police John Pomfret, Washington Post, takes a closer look at the death of a child in Tuanjie (see 7/2 Update) due to police incompetence. It�s worse than it looked last week. Pomfret also looks at how the Communist Party continues to control the police and judiciary in the PRC. More on �Private� enterprise in Beijing Still think �private� enterprise in Communist China is really private? Well, Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post, finds more holes in the theory. Goodman examines a �typical� Communist business success story, and finds reams of Communist money, old PRC-run firms, and the great stand-by: �influential government and Communist Party officials.� Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. 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. |