| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China March 12, 2004 Listen to the Chinascope, hosted by D.J. McGuire: Tuesday midnight EST or Wednesday 2PM EST (tape delay), on WXEI 95.3 FM in Crestview, FL, or here. 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 Wu'er Kaixi and Shen Tong, two leaders in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, give high praise in the China Support Network to Dr. Jiang Yanyong, who has used his fame from expose of last year�s SARS coverup (see 4/11/03 Week�s Links) to publicly call the Tiananmen Square massacre a mistake. More on Dr. Jiang Yanyong The BBC profiles the very good doctor, as does the Epoch Times (HK), which also quoted heavily from his letter to the Communist Parliament in praise of the brave protesters of 1989. On Taiwan As the election approaches, Tim Luard, BBC, examines the Communist military threat to the island democracy. On Hong Kong The editors of the Washington Post slam Communist China�s �new smear campaign� against Hong Kong�s pro-democracy forces (see last Update). Ellen Bork, Deputy Director of the Project for the New American Century, gave a clear-eyed warning on one country, one-and-a-half systems to the Foreign Relations Committee. Lee Cheuk-yan, General Secretary, Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, spoke to the Foreign Relations Committee�s Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs. His testimony was reprinted by the Association for Asian Research, in the Epoch Times. On Tibet Philip P. Pan, Washington Post, takes note of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, just over the border in Sichuan province, and its battle against Communist persecution. On Battling the �Great Red Firewall� The BBC talks to cyberdissidents in exile who spend their days helping the Chinese people get around the Communists restrictions on internet content, and how the PRC fights them. More on Human Rights in Communist China Robert Marquand, Christian Science Monitor, says Christianity in Communist China is �being given more latitude.� Perhaps he has not noticed that the caveat: �so long as Chinese believers profess loyalty and patriotism to the state,� is not new, but a very old instrument of Communist repression (note: he does detail the crackdown against �underground� churches). Ann Noonan, of the Laogai Foundation, calls on the U.S. to �finally take Congress's advice and turn up the heat � officially � on the PRC� with a proposed resolution to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights condemning Communist China, in National Review Online. On the Communist Chinese Economy Ben Larkman, Epoch Times, takes note of Communist China�s desperate attempt to prop up its banking sector, and what it means for foreigners hoping to get into PRC banking: �the financial world will be coming to the same conclusion human rights activists came to years ago: China's signature on international treaties isn't worth a whole lot.� On the Communist China and the U.S. George Stalk and Dave Young, in the Washington Post, see the PRC pulling away �as many as 15 percent to 20 percent of industrial products now made in the United States.� Herman E. Daly, University of Maryland, rips the economic argument behind �engagement� in testimony to the Senate Democratic Policy Committee (Link via China Support Network). Best of the bunch is Pat Buchanan, in his American Conservative. Buchanan is one of the few pundits to bring geopolitics and national security into the debate over U.S.-PRC trade. On the Hu-Jiang Battle The editors of the Epoch Times take note of the headline battle between PRC President Hu Jintao and Central Military Commission Chair Jiang Zemin. On Mongolia and Communist China Robert Kaplan, in The Atlantic talks to the American military attach� to Mongolia, and finds a nation very worried about Communist China. Kaplan himself says of the PRC: �If we look beyond the present conflagrations in the Middle East, China looms as the greatest challenge to American power.� Sadly, Kaplan also includes some references to the mythical � as in non-existent � terrorism from the Uighur people of East Turkestan, but like everyone else who throws that charge around, he provides no evidence of it. This may be a function of his interview subject � the U.S. declared one non-existent Uighur group terrorist in 2002 (see 9/18/02 Update). Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. 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