| Link of the Week This was another close call (see below for why), but the winner this week is Gary Schmitt, Executive Director at the Project for the New American Century. Schmitt says the terrorist war should not distract the U.S. from thwarting Communist China�s aims and ambitions in a well-written piece from The Weekly Standard. The piece is also available on the P-NAC East Asia page. On the �entrepreneurs� of Communist China Meet Zhou Wenchang, a local Communist favorite in the city Xingyang (he�s had two terms in the Henan provincial legislature) who has used his connections to become a wealthy �entrepreneur.� Among his talents are having clients kidnapped, taking money for items never delivered, and having an ex-engineer who defected to the competition thrown in prison. Story by John Pomfret, Washington Post On Hong Kong The editors of the National Post weigh in on the ex-colony five years after the handover. Like the Washington Post in last week�s links, they make the important link between Communist China�s growing control over the city and its current economic doldrums. Meanwhile, Stephen Vines (BBC) examines the state of the city solely from its economic side. On Communist China�s �War on the Web� Hannah Beech of Time Asia takes a look at Communist efforts to restrict information into the PRC the internet. Outside of neglecting to mention the Communist plan of forcing the internet service providers to help censor information (see last update), it�s a decent piece. On the lack of trust in Communist China Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN�s analyst for Communist China, laments at the lack of chengxin (the Chinese word for �honesty and trust�) in the PRC. Lam traces the unscrupulousness of Communist China, including its politics. Sign up for the North Korea Report; the next issue comes out on Monday. There�s still time to contact the President and tell him not to appoint pro-PRC Doug Paal as de facto ambassador to Taiwan. Check out the latest on Communist China and the Terrorist War. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our web site. Sign the Boycott Petition: In reaction to the decision of the International Olympic Committee awarding Beijing the 2008 Olympic Games, 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]. Please feel free to send any news on Communist China you happen to find to the same address. |