| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China March 14, 2003 Next week�s Links will be sent one day ahead of schedule, on Thursday, March 20, 2003. Link of the Week The editors of the Washington Times may be overly optimistic about incoming PRC President and current party chief Hu Jintao�s support for reform, but they are dead on about the continuing power of Jiang Zemin, the outgoing President, former party chief, and most importantly, the now and future Chairman of the Central Military Commissions � party and state � which will likely keep him as the �paramount leader.� On Communist China, North Korea, and East Turkestan Robert Lane Greene, of the Economist, still thinks that Communist China could �possibly� help the U.S. � all evidence to the contrary � in The New Republic. Even worse, Greene makes the horrible error of saying the PRC is facing �home-grown Islamist militant� forces. In other words, he swallows the Communist propaganda on East Turkestan hook, line and sinker. Ugh! Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, sent out every Monday. Check out the latest on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. On Tibet About 2,000 protestors marched in London to celebrate Free Tibet Day (Saturday) calling on Prime Minister Tony Blair to address the fate of Tibet in his April trip to the PRC. Chris Summers, BBC, spoke to Pafang, a Tibetan refugee who joined the march. On the Communist Reshuffle Holly Williams, BBC, has this snapshot of Wen Jiabao, the incoming Communist Prime Minister and leader of the �reform� group within the Communist Party. CNN, meanwhile, looks at outgoing PRC Parliament chair, and Tiananmen butcher, Li Peng. On Communist Corruption John Pomfret, Washington Post, examines one of the hallmarks of corruption in Communist China � nepotism � and its most polished practitioners: the family of Tiananmen butcher Li Peng. An Alternate UN? David Gelernter, in the Weekly Standard, proposes an alternative world body to the United Nations, led by �a Britain-Russia-America triumvirate.� One can think of that what one like, but Gelernter later specifically excludes Communist China from the �Big Three.� He deserves credit for that at least. On �Made in China� John Derbyshire, member since 2002 and columnist for National Review Online, notes that if Americans stopped purchasing PRC-made products, �Their economy would collapse,� and the Communist regime itself would soon follow. His comments are in the last section of the linked column. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our home page. 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 or North Korea that you happen to find to the same address. |