| New Web Site Feature � �Communist China, the Taliban, and the Terrorist War�: From China e-Lobby Updates and �Week�s Links,� a chronicle of Communist China�s actions after the terrorist attack. Access it on our web site, either directly or via our main page. Sign the Boycott Petition: In reaction to the 2008 Olympic Games being awarded to Beijing, 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]. CHINA E-LOBBY UPDATE: DECEMBER 12, 2001 TOP STORY: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CALLED TO CARPET FOR AIDING TALIBAN INDIA TO PROBE PRC FIRM�S TELECOMMUNICATIONS HELP TO BIN LADEN HARBORERS, MAY KICK OUT OVER 150 COMMUNIST CHINESE TELECOMMUNICATIONS WORKERS Remember Huawei Technologies, the telecommunications firm with mysterious ownership that integrated Iraq�s air defense grid and was building a telephone system for the Taliban (see previous updates)? Well, the firm�s colorful recent history has caught the attention of the Indian government, which according to the BBC may deport �over 150 Chinese telecom experts,� from India. Huawei, caught in Iraq last February and in Kabul just days after September 11, has a headquarters in Bangalore, an Indian city with �key defen(s)e installations.� This has Indian defense officials worried. OTHER NEWS ON COMMUNIST CHINA AND THE TERRORIST WAR FALL OF TALIBAN SEEN AS MAJOR BOOST TO INDIA One of the big regional winners in the terrorist war is India, the leading regional rival to Communist China and its long-time ally Pakistan. India supported the Northern Alliance throughout its fight with the Taliban, and Cybercast News Service reports that the new Afghan government views India as a friend. The Washington Post also reported on the boon to the nation that considers the PRC its top threat. PRC CLAIMS OF UIGHUR TERRORIST WAVE EXPOSED AS BUNK, ONE UIGHUR TELLS ASIAWEEK U.S. �SHOULD GO ON BOMBING . . . BOMB CHINA;� PRC EXPANDS CRACKDOWN Well, well, well, Asiaweek reported from inside East Turkestan � called Xinjiang by Communist China � to test the claims of the People�s Republic that the region is a hotbed for terrorists and Osama bin Laden supporters. He found no such thing, only the long suffering Uighur people under the yolk of a ruthless, brutal Communist crackdown that goes back long before September 11. As Turdi Ghoja, head of the Uighur American Association, put it, �Chinese have always been treating the Uighurs as enemies.� So anti-Communist sentiment �bubbles just under the surface,� but support for bin Laden? Asiaweek found more support for the U.S. in the terrorist war: �In fact, many wish it would be extended. �They should go on bombing,� says a young student. �We just wish they would bomb China.�� Despite this, CNN�s Willy Wo-Lap Lam reported that Communist China was still at it, insisting that �terrorist� (even Lam felt the need to put it in quotes) groups in the region required the continuation � and even escalation � of the crackdown. The Communists intend to, among other things �tighten control over the �management of religious affairs,�� i.e., �stepped up surveillance of mosques.� These stories are all the news from East Turkestan (�Xinjiang�) this week. TOP MAINLAND STORY: COMMUNIST CHINESE BLOOD DONATION SCHEME LEADS TO ONE MILLION AIDS VICTIMS � IN ONE PROVINCE; VICTIMS TOLD TO KEEP QUIET NOTE: The source link is from The New York Times, which requires registration, but not a fee. If not for the terrorist war, this would be the top story this week. Several updates have reports of the AIDS epidemic in rural Communist China, and the hideous blood scheme whose hygiene conditions was so awful it spread AIDS like wildfire. Well, the Times reported that some have estimated the number of AIDS victims to be �at least a million people in Henan Province.� That�s right � in one province. The number of victims admitted by the PRC is a laughable 1,495. What isn�t so funny is what happens to the victims who ask for aid from local Communists � most of whom were involved in running the blood fiasco. Those who talk are thrown in jail; those who stay quiet die slowly, painfully, and without any medical attention. This has resulted in a number of protests throughout the province. NYT story: Part 1 Henan is alone, either. Reports of epidemics reached the Times from villages in neighboring Shanxi province and remote (500 miles away) Sichuan province. Thus the last act of Communist cruelty and incompetence in the 20th Century will likely become its first massacre of the 21st. NYT Story: Part 2 HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS NEWS COMMUNIST MEDIA CONSOLIDATION EXPANDS TO FILM AND RADIO Mere days after news came out of Communist attempts to consolidate its cable industry, the BBC and CNN report that Communist China is moving to expand the firm into the �China, Radio, Film and Television Group,� which will control television, cable, radio, and film. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) � one guess on its job � will own 52% of the firm�s stock. Both reported that the move would �tighten the state's grip over pricing and media content.� It comes in reaction to the PRC�s entry into the World Trade Organization � the body that many claimed would open Communist China up to the outside world. Is this what they had in mind? OTHER MAINLAND NEWS COMMUNIST CHINA ENTERS WTO, MAY SUE JAPAN AS FIRST MOVE Regarding the WTO, Communist Prime Minister Zhu Rongji told a group of Communist officials, according to CNN, that �some industries, enterprises and products will inevitably suffer� as a result of the PRC joining the WTO, which happened yesterday (CNN). Whatever the effect on the economy, the above action clearly shows that the Communists� decrepit regime will certainly benefit from the WTO. What will Communist China do now that it has officially entered the WTO? According to CNN, the PRC will begin what Western backers of its entry called �playing by the rules� by suing Japan. The BBC reported that Beijing is also making its first power play by claiming to lead of developing nations. This is irking a number of WTO members, including India a rival of the PRC and its long-time ally Pakistan. MAYOR OF SHANGHAI OUSTED DUE TO FEUD WITH LOCAL PARTY BOSS, JIANG-ZHU RIVALRY CNN reported the �resignation� of Shanghai Mayor Xu Kuangdi this week, stunning political watchers. Mayor Xu oversaw strong growth for Shanghai, but decided to �return to academia� as Beijing's Chinese Academy of Engineering Party Secretary. Xu feuded with the Communist Party Secretary of Shanghai, Huang Ju . . . who outranks the mayor� as all local party chiefs do. Meanwhile, CNN�s Willy Wo-Lap Lam put Xu�s �resignation� � from his column its obvious Xu was pushed out � in the context of the bigger battle between factions loyal to Communist President Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji, noting that Xu was a Zhu prot�g�, while Huang is close to Jiang. Lam said the move showed that �Mao-era intrigue and back-stabbing is still very much the rule of the game.� INTERNATIONAL NEWS JAPANESE TAXPAYERS BAILED OUT CREDIT UNIONS FUNDING COMMUNIST NORTH KOREA Here was a surprise for Japanese taxpayers: some of the Japanese credit unions bailed out by the government illegally funneled �billions� to the North Korean Communist regime, according to numerous sources cited by the Washington Post. This would be the same claque that is starving its people to death, and fired a Taepodong missile over Japan in 1998. North Korea has only one reliable friend � the PRC. COMMUNIST PRESIDENT JIANG IN BURMA FOR TALKS PRC President Jiang Zemin visited Burma for talks with the leaders of the military junta, according to the BBC. Communist China was the first nation to recognize the latest version of Burma�s dictatorship in 1988, just before it held elections, lost them by a landslide, cancelled them, and arrested the leader of the winning party, dissident Aung San Suu Kyi (more from the BBC on the PRC-Burma alliance). DISSIDENTS IN VIETNAM PROTEST BORDER TREATY WITH PRC A border agreement between Communist China and Vietnam has come under attack by dissidents in the latter country. Twenty opponents of Vietnam�s Communist regime wrote to the Communist leaders criticizing the deal for �conceding too much territory in secret negotiations,� according to the BBC. SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT VISITS COMMUNIST CHINA FOR ECONOMIC TALKS South African President Thabo Mbeki � the fellow who spent months saying the HIV virus did not cause AIDS � was in Communist China for a three-day conference to boost �political and economic ties,� according to the BBC and CNN�s Willy Wo-Lap Lam. REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN) NEWS COMMUNIST CHINA SAYS IT WILL CONTINUE TO IGNORE CHEN Despite the performance of ROC President Chen Shui-bian�s Democratic Progressive Party in last week�s elections, the PRC will continue to isolate him, according to the Washington Post. Beijing�s mouthpiece, Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Zhang Mingqing, did not mention the usual invasion threat against the island democracy, but essentially said the policy of freezing out its elected leader �has not changed.� NATIONALIST AND PEOPLE FIRST PARTIES REJECT COALITION WITH CHEN Meanwhile, the BBC reports that the Nationalist Party (a.k.a. Kuomintang, or KMT) and the People First Party rejected Chen�s offer to form a coalition government. The two parties would hold a combined 114 seats, a bare majority in the 225-seat Legislative Yuan. By the time the new legislature begins its session in February, KMT defections (another hint of which was reported in Time Asia) may alter the equation. TAIWANESE COMPANIES SALIVATE AS MAINLAND OPENS UP FOR INVESTMENT As the BBC reports, firms in Taiwan are eagerly awaiting the chance to invest in Communist China, due in part to cheap labor � thanks to no independent unions � and the prospect of �strong local demand.� Whether Taiwanese firms will suffer the same fate as most foreign investors � piracy and favoritism are rampant and legendary in the PRC � remains to be seen. HONG KONG NEWS TOP COMMUNIST IN HONG KONG SAYS TUNG CHEE-HWA SHOULD STAY AS HEAD OF CITY Jiang Enzhu, director of the PRC's liaison office in Hong Kong, and effectively the top Beijing hand in HK, endorsed Tung Chee-hwa for a second term as Chief Executive of the city. Tung, �elected� in 1997 by a Communist-appointed committee, is deeply opposed Hong Kong pro-democracy legislators and activists, but the Communists love him, and according to CNN, businesses that are �forced to say �yes.�� BBC also has a story on the latest Communist endorsement of Tung, plus more on the opposition, led in part by Emily Lau, a former pro-democracy legislator who now leads the Coalition Against a Second Term. Another �election,� from yet another Communist-vetted committee, is scheduled for next year. CITY GOVERNMENT BANS �ILLEGAL� MIGRANTS FROM CATHOLIC SCHOOLS Hong Kong�s administration officially banned all children among 5,000 mainland-born �migrants� fighting for city resident status from attending any school in the city, blocking the efforts of the local Roman Catholic archdiocese to teach them, according to CNN. The children are part of a group born of Hong Kong parents who wish to claim residence in the city. Hong Kong�s highest court had granted them residential status two years ago, but the Communist regime in Beijing � at the �request� of the Communist-appointed Hong Kong government � overruled the court, leading many to wonder of the so-called autonomous HK administration was really autonomous. The �migrants� have been fighting for their right to live in Hong Kong ever since. TIBET NEWS DALAI LAMA SAYS AUTONOMY DEAL WITH COMMUNIST HEIR APPARENT �POSSIBLE� The Dalai Lama, Tibet�s spiritual leader told the Los Angeles Times that an agreement on autonomy for Tibet is �possible� with the man likely to be the next national Communist Party boss, Hu Jintao (the Times mistakenly called him the PRC�s next president). Hu was head of the Tibetan Communist from 1988-1992, and presided over a bloody crackdown on Tibet in March 1989. Still, the Dalai Lama said Hu�s experience could make him more likely to reach a deal since he �knows Tibet more thoroughly . . . But then, some say because he was the [chief] of the [Communist] Party in the Tibet Autonomous Region, the crackdown happened.� The Dalai Lama himself admitted he does not know which is the real Hu Jintao, �So let us see.� |