| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China November 12, 2004 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. The next Summer Olympics, in 2008, will take place in Beijing. Will the U.S. take part in a Communist Chinese version of the Munich Nazi propaganda event of 1936? Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Link of the Week Charles R. Smith, in Newsmax, details France�s history of military arms sales to Communist China, and the danger to the U.S. if France succeeds in convincing the European Union to lift its arms embargo against the People�s Republic. More On Communist China and the United States St�phanie Giry, Foreign Affairs, writes in The New Republic of the growing danger of Communist Chinese influence in Africa. Brad Glosserman, from the Pacific Forum CSIS in Honolulu, talks to Takehiko Kambayashi, Washington Times, about how the PRC and Stalinist-controlled northern Korea have eroded Japan�s pacifism, and how the U.S. should respond. Both Irwin M. Stelzer (Weekly Standard) and Wang Menglun and Zheng Qifang (Liberty Times via Epoch Times) feel Communist China needs to end the deliberate devaluation of its currency. Stelzer believes it will help the U.S.; Wang and Zheng think it will not be enough to �save� Communist China�s economy, and will damage Taiwan�s in the process. On the Falun Gong War Zhang Wen, Epoch Times, examines the consequences of a hypothetical �redress� of the spiritual movement by the Chinese Communist Party. He expects the Party will hope to earn the Chinese people�s gratitude by ending the Falun Gong war, but it will be disappointed. More on Religious Persecution in Communist China Kate McGeown, BBC, talks to two Christian victims of Communist persecution. On the �Migrants� from Communist China Cindi John, BBC, talks to a brother of one of the 58 Chinese who died in the back of a truck trying to escape Communist China for Britain. She finds that the late Li Zhen Qian left not to find a better job, but because �his family in China continued to experience persecution.� On the State of Workers in the Workers� State Siska Silitonga, Voice of America (via Epoch Times) details how corrupt officials and a lack of independent unions have made coal mines in the PRC �the most dangerous in the world.� On the (Not so) Russian Far East Julian Strauss, Daily Telegraph (UK, via Washington Times), turns an eye to the massive influx from Communist China into the Russian Pacific region, and finds many who fear the Communists �may gain control over huge swathes of eastern Russia.� Sign up for the next Northern Korea Report (out on Monday). Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Miss an Update, Week's Links, or Northern 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. |