| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China November 14, 2003 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available! My book detailing Communist China�s history of aiding terrorist states, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, and al Qaeda can be ordered here. � D.J. McGuire Links of the Week Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC, angrily slams the Communists in this column on the AIDS epidemic in Henan province. Hayes notes the recent PRC blood donation scheme that �ignored even the most basic standards of hygiene,� and infected �at least 500,000, maybe more.� AIDS is a �state secret� in Henan; as one villager put it, �They are waiting for us to die.� Wingfield-Hayes may have actually underestimated the extent of the disease � a number of reports put the Henan infection number at one million, but he is perfectly clear on the PRC�s view of the situation: �My trip to Shuang Miao was unapproved, illegal. The people who took me there did so at great risk to their own safety.� This has been, and remains, an outrage. Meanwhile, James T. Hackett runs the gamut of issues � Taiwan, North Korea, trade, etc. � in his must-read Washington Times column of the PRC�s �charm offensive� on the U.S., and its objectives: �to buy time while the country grows in economic power and prestige, strengthens its military, and prepares for the day it will seize Taiwan and evict the U.S. from East Asia.� On �Engagement� Lawrence Kaplan, writing in The New Republic�s TNR Primary, is stunned by presidential candidate Wesley Clark�s historically inaccurate support for �engagement,� and cites Communist China as a prime example of the policy�s failure. More On Communist China and Trade Think Communist China is ready to open itself up to the world economy? Think again. Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post, finds the regime once again choosing to block imports � in this case, of soybeans � in a desperate attempt to mollify angry farmers in the PRC�s rural interior. On Communist China and Space Charles R. Smith, Newsmax, has another reminder of the militaristic character and objectives of Communist China�s space program. On Communist China, Arms, and Europe Charles R. Smith, Newsmax, takes note of France and Germany�s desire to �drop Tiananmen Square sanctions against selling weapons to China� and what it would mean to the balance of power in Asia and worldwide. On the State of Workers in the Workers� State Sarah Buckley, BBC, reviews Blind Shaft, a movie on the dangerous mines throughout Communist China, and how shady mine �owners� work with corrupt local Communists to avoid the consequences of numerous mining deaths. On Nationalism in Communist China John Derbyshire, National Review Online (and Member since 2003), laments the combination of the combination of rampant nationalism and justified anger over �their own dismal life prospects� pulsating through Communist China�s youth. Susan Jakes, Time Asia, has this report on the incident that sparked Derbyshire�s column. On Hong Kong The editors of the Washington Times are concerned about the city�s growing economic integration with Communist China, and the potential loss of its political freedom. On Tibet The Dalai Lama talks to Rebecca MacKinnon, CNN. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. 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. |