| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China April 16, 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 Ciping Huang, executive director of Wei Jingsheng Foundation, testifies before Congress on the harrowing plight of workers in Communist China, and how it affects skilled and unskilled laborers throughout the world (reprinted by the China Support Network). More On Human Rights in Communist China Two Czech papers, cited by the BBC (third item), tell President Vaclav Klaus to keep the pressure on the Communists on human rights during his upcoming visit to the PRC. The China Support Network reprints four groups� statements calling on the UN Human Rights Commission to condemn Communist China (the resolution was later killed). Nayan Chanda, editor of Yale Global Online, writes a Washington Post review of Three Stories of Change in Modern China, Ian Johnson�s tale of three brave dissidents fighting the Communist behemoth on different fronts. On Communist China and the Terrorist War Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Thomas P. M. Barnett, a former official in the current Bush Administration, calls for the U.S. to seek cooperation in the terror war from �far more realistic partners in China, India and Russia� in the Washington Post. On the Communists, Barnett is terribly na�ve (perhaps he needs to read this), but on India he�s on solid ground. On Communist China and the United States Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Lev Navrozov highlights the danger to the U.S. from the growing ties between Russian and Communist China. The editors of the Washington Times have a far-sighted piece centered around Vice President Cheney�s trip to Asia this past week. On Tibet John Kusumi, Executive Director of the China Support Network, and Shengde Lian, his counterpart for the Free China Movement, call on Tibetan activists Sonam Wangdu, Dolma Choephel, and Gyatso to end their hunger strike against the Communists before all three die. Lhadon Tethong, of Students for a Free Tibet, makes an urgent plea for Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, the Tibetan monk slated for execution for his supposed role in a bomb plot (see 3/12/03 and 2/11 Updates). The plea was via the China Support Network. On Taiwan David M. Lampton and Kenneth Lieberthal, the former with the Nixon Center and the latter a Clinton Administration alum, dress up their anti-Taiwan stance in a �framework� in the Washington Post in which the U.S. pledges to �not recognize an independent Taiwan,� but a PRC invasion would be seen only �as a matter of the gravest immediate concern.� Meanwhile, Matthew Forney, Time Asia, finds the outlook very bleak for the Nationalist Party (the lead �pan-blue� party) after its second straight defeat. Paul Jackson, Calgary Sun, examines the situation across the Taiwan Straits, and finds Communist China�s claim to the island democracy to be completely laughable. Julie Chow, Cox News Service, talks to those behind the Taipei 101, the world�s tallest building, in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. 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. |