| New Web Site Feature � �Communist China, the Taliban, and the Terrorist War�: From China e-Lobby Updates and �Week�s Links,� a chronicle of Communist China�s actions after the terrorist attack. Access it on our web site, either directly or via our main page. Sign the Boycott Petition: In reaction to the 2008 Olympic Games being awarded to Beijing, 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]. CHINA E-LOBBY UPDATE: NOVEMBER 14, 2001 NEWS ON COMMUNIST CHINA AND THE TERRORIST WAR COMMUNIST CHINA PROPOSES POST-TALIBAN AFGHANISTAN PLAN Communist China announced this week a five-point plan � although �five-platitude� would be more appropriate � for post-Taliban Afghanistan. As CNN�s Willy Wo-Lap Lam reports, the People�s Republic � our supposed ally � is still looking past the actual war to preventing a ��pro-U.S.� regime in Kabul.� PRC CLAIMS 1,000 MUSLIMS IN PRC ARE BIN LADENITES, THEN SAYS IT DOESN�T KNOW In its latest attempt to justify its horrific crackdown in East Turkestan, Communist China claimed that Osama bin Laden had under his wing 1,000 Muslims from the PRC. According to the Washington Post, some Western diplomats almost immediately called the numbers inflated. The Communist crackdown against Muslims includes razed mosques, political executions, and imprisonment of numerous dissidents. Within days, Communist Foreign ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao said he didn�t know how many bin Ladenites were in East Turkestan, according to CNN�s Willy Wo-Lap Lam. OTHER EAST TURKESTAN (�XINJIANG�) NEWS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER TELLS PRC NOT TO USE WAR AS COVER FOR REPRESSION It appears the crackdown on Uighur Muslims is finally getting some attention. UN Human Rights High Commissioner Mary Robinson visited Communist China last week, pointedly telling the Communists �not to use the war on terrorism to crack down on civil liberties and ethnic minorities,� as CNN put it. Robinson said she would �particularly raise the problem of the Uighur people in Xinjiang.� BBC also had a story on Robinson�s comments. The Communists have tried to tell the world that their brutal treatment of Uighurs is in concert with the terrorist war � never mind that the repressive actions date back for decades and few, if any, supporters of East Turkestan independence are terrorists. OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS COMMUNIST CHINA JOINS WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION Communist China formally joined the World Trade Organization over the weekend, according to the Washington Post. The WTO membership locks into place a number of preferential trade agreements Beijing has with the rest of the world, and gives them the power to reshape the body. Also reporting on this story was the Washington Times, Cybercast News Service, and CNN�s Willy Wo-Lap Lam. Taiwan was also admitted over the weekend � see Republic of China (Taiwan) News. President Bush praised the entry of the two, while the Teamsters criticized Communist China�s entry. The union did not take a position on the entry of Taiwan, according to Cybercast News Service. OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS NEWS PRC�S PERSECUTION OF RELIGION DETAILED BY LAOGAI RESEARCH FOUNDATION Communist China�s brutal crackdowns on Falun Gong, Christians of every denomination, Uighur Muslims, and Tibetan Buddhists were revealed in a scathing indictment by Ann Noonan of the Laogai Research Foundation. She details the brutal actions, and how the Communists have used the terrorist war as an excuse for their treatment of the Uighurs, in National Review Online. OTHER MAINLAND NEWS PRC HOLDS AIDS CONFERENCE, EXCLUDES THOSE INFECTED IN BLOOD DRIVE Communist China held its first AIDS conference this week, but in typical Communist fashion, they avoided a major chapter in the spread of the disease by blocking the attendance of seven victims who acquired the disease during a Communist nationwide blood drive in the 1980s. The blood drive, which had shockingly low hygiene standards, has led to a 65% infection rate in some villages. Source: BBC COMMUNISTS HOPE TO FIGHT DROUGHT WITH MASSIVE IRRIGATION PROJECT Here we go again. To combat a massive northern drought caused by over-development that no free market would support, Beijing is planning a massive project to pull water from the south. The PRC said it could to handle the �hundreds of thousands of people who would need to be resettled,� thanks to � and this is straight out of the BBC story � �their experience of moving people for the Three Gorges dam.� This would be the same Three Gorges Dam project plagued by corruption, including embezzlement of resettlement funds. Those who would be resettled have protested repeatedly the Communists. INTERNATIONAL NEWS COMMUNIST CHINA, ASEAN SIGN FREE TRADE PACT Communist China and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed a free trade pact last week. The new free trade zone, to be formed in ten years, would include the PRC, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, the Philippines, Brunei, Cambodia, Malaysia, Burma, Singapore, and Vietnam, but not Japan and South Korea. Already, according to the BBC, there is concern that Beijing would dominate the zone. REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN) NEWS PRESIDENT CHEN BARRED FROM ENTERING EUROPE TO RECEIVE DEMOCRACY AWARD Under pressure from Communist China, European nations have blocked ROC President Chen Shui-bian from entering the continent to win a democracy award from Liberal International. The collection of liberal parties worldwide was unable to convince Denmark, France, or anyone else to buck the PRC, according to the BBC. Chen�s wife, currently in Strasbourg, will accept the honor on his behalf. Prior to his election as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party last year, Chen was a well-known human-rights attorney who served a jail term for his role in a protest against the Nationalist government. He served as Taipei mayor from 1994 to 1998, and was the DPP candidate from President in 1996. He lost to then-President Lee Teng-hui, who has since bolted from the Nationalists and is now Chen�s ally. TAIWAN ENTERS WTO ONE DAY AFTER COMMUNIST CHINA DOES One day after Communist China entered the WTO, Taiwan formally joined. The island democracy had been ready to enter for years, but was put on hold because the Communists did not want the ROC to join before they did. BBC reports that Taiwan could only enter as a �separate customs territory,� not as a sovereign state � thanks to PRC protests, of course. Also reporting on this was the Washington Times. COMMUNISTS TELL TAIWAN NOT TO HOST WTO MEETINGS OR USE WTO �TRICKS� Communist China promptly told the ROC not to use �tricks� to as CNN�s Willy Wo-Lap Lam put it, �try to internationalize cross-Taiwan Strait issues. The PRC also warned the island democracy not to host any WTO meetings, even if Taiwan is a member. Beijing also tried, again, to prod Taiwan into accepting the �one China principle.� Nice to see how much WTO membership is changing Communist China, isn�t it? HONG KONG NEWS PRO-DEMOCRACY PARTIES JOIN TRADE UNIONS IN ANTI-TUNG COALITION A coalition of opposition groups has formed in Hong Kong to work against the reappointment of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa. The coalition � made up of pro-democracy opposition parties and trade unions � charges Tung, picked by a Communist-appointed committee in 1997, with economic mismanagement, according to the BBC. The group is also pushing for the direct election of Tung�s post. At present another Communist-appointed panel would pick Tung�s successor. If Tung chooses to run again, he has the full support of Beijing, which makes his reappointment a near-certainty if the panel keeps the power to appoint. No news from Tibet was reported this week |