| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China October 15, 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. The next Summer Olympics, in 2008, will take place in Beijing. Will the U.S. take part in a Communist Chinese version of the Munich Nazi propaganda event of 1936? Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Link of the Week Time Asia focuses on Huang Jingao, the exceedingly brave fellow whose letter exposing corruption in Communist China led to international acclaim � and ostracism from the Party (see 8/18 Update). On Communist China and the United States Frank Gaffney, Jr., of the Center for Security Policy and the Washington Times, demands attention to three issues neglected in the presidential campaign. On the second issue, �Predatory Chinese trade practices,� he is absolutely right. The editors of the Washington Post note the Communists� voracious appetite for oil, and its effect on the price of crude. Also in Washington Times is Harlan Ullman�s painfully wrong column on how the President should handle the dispute between Communist China and the island democracy of Taiwan. Eric Baculinao, MSNBC, notes the popularity of the National Basketball Association in the PRC, but says nothing on the wisdom of the NBA working with the anti-American regime. On Communist China and Europe Time Asia examines thee European Union�s growing coziness with Communist China. Michael Elliot looks at the political implications � particularly regarding the EU�s arms embargo against the PRC � while Peter Gumble focuses on the economic angle. The editors of the Washington Times rip French President Jacques Chirac for his continuing push to lift the arms embargo. The editors of the Epoch Times approvingly note the opposition to Chirac on the embargo. Jay Nordlinger, National Review Online (next to last item), blasts both Chirac � on the embargo � and musician Jean-Michel Jarre � for dropping local rock star Cui Jian, Communist persona non grata ever since his songs inspired the Tiananmen Square demonstrators (see last Update). On the State of the Workers in the Workers� State The BBC has a series on �change in China,� beginning with an unattributed piece on the rise of a PRC middle class. The second piece, by Tim Luard, reveals the plight of the impoverished, both in the rural interior and in the cities. Luard also writes the third piece, on how the Communists� rampant overdevelopment is crushing the environment. On Taiwan Anyone who wonders why Communist China is so keen on swallowing up Taiwan need only see Edward Cody�s Washington Post piece on women on the mainland marrying Taiwanese men just to get to the island democracy. As more details are found, they will be linked via the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the next Northern Korea Report (next edition goes out on Tuesday). Miss an Update, Week's Links, or Northern 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. |