| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China December 12, 2003 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available! My book detailing Communist China�s history of aiding terrorist states, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, and al Qaeda can be ordered here and here. � D.J. McGuire Link of the Week Admittedly, there may be some personal bias here. Lev Navrazov, Newsmax, gives his view of U.S.-Communist China relations. He has high praise for (here it comes), Dragon in the Dark: �McGuire's book is valuable because, to begin with, no one has been saying what he says.� Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. On Taiwan Among those angered by Bush�s slap in Taiwan�s face during his meeting with Communist Premier Wen Jiabao were the leaders of the Project for the New American Century, William Kristol, Robert Kagan, and Gary Schmitt (�a mistake�, and that�s at their kindest), the editors of the Washington Post (�inexcusable�), and the editors of the Washington Times (�worrying�). More On Wen Jiabao�s Trip to the United States Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN, examines the potential fallout from the Communist Premier�s trip to Washington, and President Bush�s slap in Taiwan�s face therein, as does the BBC�s Adam Brookes. The Taiwanese Association of America writes this open letter to Wen, in which the group stands up for the island democracy, in the Epoch Times (HK). Jefferson Morely, Washington Post, catalogues the opinions of Asian newspapers, as does the BBC. Philip Pan, also in the Post, profiles the Communist Premier and supposed �reformer.� More On Communist China and the United States Mary Hennock, BBC, sketches the current state of debate surrounding the growing U.S. trade deficit with Communist China. Daniel Drezner, of the University of Chicago, takes note of a potential trade bloc among developing nations, led by � among others � Communist China, in The New Republic. Jay Nordlinger, National Review Online (ninth item), provides the latest on Chinese dissident Yang Jianli, who returned from exile in the U.S., and was promptly arrested (see 2/21 and 5/2 Week�s Links and 5/1/02 Update). Cal Thomas has some choice words for the Communist regime�s new plan for U.S. high school courses (see last Update), in the Washington Times. More On Human Rights in Communist China The editors of the Washington Post asked Minxin Pei, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to translate some of the writings of internet dissident Liu Di (see 12/3 Update). The excerpts reveal a young, hard-nosed, and very courageous, anti-Communist woman whom all should admire. Mo Li, Epoch Times, examines the value of speaking truth to power with actions such as the petition for Du Daobin, the Epoch Times columnist languishing in a Communist prison (see 11/21, 11/26, and last Week�s Links). John Nania, a Minneapolis writer, compares the human rights records of the U.S. and Communist China, also in the Epoch Times. Edward E. Kaufman, of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, details the lack of press freedom � especially in broadcasting and the internet � in Communist China, in the Washington Times. Lee Edwards, of the Heritage Foundation, visited Communist China, lectured on the American conservative movement, and made a list of �things in the People's Republic of China that are not open to discussion,� in National Review Online. On Bioethics in Communist China Eric Cohen, editor of The New Atlantis, details the hideous biological/genetic practices occurring in, and directed by, Communist China (the section dealing with the PRC begins about half-way through the story). On AIDS in Communist China Alice Park, Time Asia, chronicles the struggles of Dr. David Ho against AIDS in the PRC, and the Communist attempt to cover-up the disease. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. 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. |