| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China May 14, 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. Link of the Week Lee Edwards and John Tkacik, both from the Heritage Foundation, call on the U.S. to demand the World Health Organization accept Taiwan as an observer, in National Review Online. As the Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Approaches China Support Network remembers the events of May 13, 1989 in Beijing. More on Human Rights in Communist China Yi Chuan, Epoch Times, examines the Communists� revenge against Cheng Yizhong, former deputy editor-in-chief of the maverick Southern Urban Daily. John Kusumi, of the China Support Network, and others, including yours truly, react to the sentencing of Yang Jianli (see 4/30 Week�s Links). More On Communist China and the United States Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Jim Erickson, Time Asia, equates PRC Premier Wen Jiabao to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Ugh! Randall Parker, Parapundit founder and Member since 2003, examines how Communist China�s increasing thirst for imported oil (see last Update) is trouble for the U.S. Speaking of the Middle East, Ashok Kapur, Jamestown Foundation, provides in the Epoch Times a very useful history of Communist China�s ties to Pakistan, its plans for the Middle East, and its deep concern over a possible U.S.-India alliance. Ellen Bork, of the Project for the New American Century, echo Edwards and Tkacik on the U.S., Taiwan, and the WHO. On Communist China and the Terrorist War Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Liu Xiaobo, Epoch Times, wonders why �many Chinese on the Internet still consider Chinese to be exempt from terrorist activities.� Perhaps it is because the terrorists have such good relations with the Communists. On the North Korean Refugees Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. Claudia Rossette, of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, blasts the United Nations for its indifference about North Korean refugees in the PRC in the Wall Street Journal. On Communist China and the Canada Ezra Levant, Calgary Sun, details the personal business ties between Communist China and Canada�s two most recent Prime Ministers: Paul Martin and Jean Chretien. On Communist China and Europe Jill McGivering, BBC, details Communist China�s increasing ties to the European Union. BBC online, meanwhile, talks to those who protested Communist Premier Wen Jiabao as he visited UK Prime Minister Tony Blair this week. On the Communist Chinese Economy He Qinglian continues her devastating Epoch Times expose on Communist Chinese corruption in real estate (Parts III, IV, and V, Parts I and II can be found in the last Week�s Links). On Hong Kong Jonathan Mirsky, Jamestown Foundation, details in the Epoch Times the links between Communist China�s hard line on Hong Kong and its fever over Taiwan. Ellen Bork, of the Project for the New American Century, calls on the U.S. to demand the Communists stop trying to cut off debate in the Hong Kong Legislative Council (see last Update). Ling Feng, in the Epoch Times, details the lies Communist China told Hong Kong to convince them to accept the handover, and how the people of the city are now trapped as the Communists reveal the dark truth. The editors of the Washington Times also lament the plight of the people of Hong Kong. Book Review James Harding, in the Washington Post, reviews Falun Gong: The End of Days (see NRO columnist and Member since 2002 John Derbyshire�s review in the 4/30 Week�s Links) and China's Democratic Future. 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. |