| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China June 13, 2003 Link of the Week Frank Gaffney, Jr., of the Center for Security Policy, focuses on Hong Kong�s �anti-subversion� law in the Washington Times. Gaffney highlights the danger to Hong Kong�s supposedly guaranteed freedoms, and calls on the Bush Administration to help pro-democracy forces in the city resist it. On the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Jay Nordlinger, National Review Online, writes: �Did I mention Garmisch-Partenkirchen? I just remind you that this was the site of the 1936 Winter Games, which were Hitler Games, just as those that summer, in Berlin, would be. In fact, Hitler had a smash success there. But enough about the 2008 Games in Beijing.� Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. On Communist China�s Growing Strength in Asia Ellen Bork, of the Project for the New American Century, details Communist China�s growing influence in Asia � including Burma � and calls on the U.S. to head this off, and quickly, in the Weekly Standard. More On Communist Chinese ally Burma Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) blasts Communist China, among others, for supporting the military junta that arrested Aung San Suu Kyi � the leader of the Burmese dissident movement and winner of an annulled 1990 election in the country. He also calls on the U.S. to push for Burma�s freedom and to demand that fellow democracies in Asia do the same. National Review Online excerpted his speech on the subject. Rena Pederson, editor at large at the Dallas Morning News, examines the plight of the people of Burma and the now imprisoned Suu Kyi in the Weekly Standard. The editors of the Washington Post are also upset at Suu Kyi�s treatment. More on Communist China and the United States Lev Navrozov, Newsmax, details Communist China�s geopolitical goals, and the reasons for them, in this wake up call to the American people. An actual �puff� piece on SARS One doesn�t see these everyday. Philip Pan, Washington Post, praises Communist China�s SARS efforts. On Corruption in Communist China CNN�s Jamie FlorCruz examines the fallout from the arrest of �private� businessman Zhou Zhengyi, but the political piece of the puzzle � particularly the battle between Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin � gets short shrift. Willy Wo-Lap Lam, also from CNN, makes up for that with this piece. On Communist China and Air Power Communist China rapidly modernizing its army and building up its nave, but its air force has been largely ignored. Why? Jacqueline A. Newmyer, of Stanford University, offers this answer in part in Policy Review � the Communists are terrified of this fact: �An insubordinate air force pilot or two might wreak destruction on a grand scale.� Link courtesy Randall Parker, founder of Parapundit and member since 2003 Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the North Korea Report before the next edition is sent on Monday. 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. |