| Our web site has undergone some changes, including a new page dealing entirely with North Korea. Take a look! Link of the Week John Derbyshire does it again. The contributing editor for National Review Online and China e-Lobby member since 2002 examines the reasons why NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg would snub Taiwan fro the 9/11/01 commemoration. He then refutes them with the following: �Our need to be ourselves (emphasis orig.) at such a time, to honor our most cherished and fundamental beliefs, easily overrides the call of expediency, even strategic expediency in the national interest . . . we should insist that Taiwan, a nation that shares our ideals, and strives to put them into practice, not be insulted by exclusion from our ceremonies of commemoration, when Communist China, a nation that mocks those ideals and spits on them, is courteously invited.� More on Feting Communist China and Dismissing Taiwan Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chr�tien secretly met with PRC Defense Minister Chi Haotian on Tuesday. While Chr�tien was feting the man who was Communist military�s chief of staff on June 4, 1989, Canada refused entry to Eugene Chen, Taiwan�s Foreign Minister. The editors of the Canadian National Post ripped Canada�s double standard against the island democracy. On the Cultural Revolution Terrence Cheng reviews Gao Xingjian�s One Man�s Bible, a story of a writer desperately trying to survive the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, in the Washington Post. On the upcoming Communist Party Congress Willy Wo-Lap Lam (CNN) breaks down the delegate demographics for the upcoming Chinese Communist Party Congress this November. On the lumbering state-run enterprises As Communist China joins the WTO, state-run enterprises are running into trouble, according to the BBC�s Ian Jolly. Of course, if a firm can manage to win over an outside investor to make an injection capital, it�s a completely different story. 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. Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, due out on Monday. 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. |