| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China February 13, 2004 Listen to the Chinascope, hosted by D.J. McGuire: Tuesday, midnight EST, 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 Fu Guoyong, Epoch Times (HK), bitterly notes the call in the Communist People�s Daily for �truthful speech,� while �in order to survive in the Chinese system, truthful speech is impossible.� On Taiwan�s Election Communist China and its �pan-blue� friends in Taiwan are trying mudslinging to bring down Chen Shui-bian, who is running for re-election next month. Laurence Eyton, Asia Times (via Epoch Times) finds that this tactic, like all the others Communist China is employing, is too transparent to work. Meanwhile, William Kristol, Weekly Standard, and Elen Bork, from the Project for the New American Century, blast the bush Administration for its lack of support for Taiwan�s democracy, in particular its much-maligned referenda. On Tibet and Canada Peter Worthington, Toronto Sun, is rightly furious at his homeland (Canada) for its government�s treatment of the Dalai Lama, treatment he calls �especially craven.� Admiral Moore�s �Last Warning� Christopher Ruddy, Newsmax, noted the passing of retired Admiral Thomas Moorer, and repeated �his last warning: Beware of China.� World Net Daily also mourned him. More On the United States and Communist China Lev Navrozov, Newsmax, finds yet another Pollyanish tome on nanotechnology to debunk, which as always he does with aplomb. Charles R. Smith, Newsmax, notes Senator John Kerry�s PRC-funny money connection. More on France�s Summit with Hu Jintao France-bashing is now Taiwan�s favorite sport. Paul Lin, Taipei Times (via Epoch Times) takes his swings at Jacques Chirac for his verbal slap at the island democracy and his red-carpet treatment for Hu Jintao (see last Week�s Links). On the State of Workers in the Workers� State Thanks to �harsh punishment for anyone with designs on organizing a labor movement,� as Peter S. Goodman and Philip P. Pan of the Washington Post puts it, Communist China has managed a long-standing relationship with Wal-Mart. The retailer called the PRC �the right mix� of political and economic �stability.� Ugh! Xiao Shu, Epoch Times, notes, �the economic development in China today relies on waves of human sacrifice� and laments �that coming to respect the sanctity of life is an extremely difficult process in China.� On the Communist Chinese Economy Larry Kudlow, National Review Online, praises Communist China for lowering its tax rates. No mention of national security issues reaches this column. Meanwhile, Li YongYan of the Asia Times sees trouble on the economic horizon for the PRC. Keep an Eye on the South Carolina GOP Primary While Ramesh Ponnuru is clearly not happy with anyone backing trade restrictions in South Carolina�s U.S. Senate Republican primary, his National Review Online column had one interesting note: �(Former attorney general Charlie) Condon, meanwhile, is using the national-security argument against Chinese textile imports.� Keep an eye on Charlie Condon. (Note: the candidate Ponnuru praises, Congressman Jim DeMint, was the only South Carolinian in Congress to support PNTR for Communist China). Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. 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. |