| Link of the Week Frank Gaffney, of the Center for Security Policy, has an excellent piece highlighting the risks of ignoring national security � a crippling malady of American trade policy. Gaffney focuses on the danger of pro-Communist Hong Kong businessman Li Ka-shing in this Washington Times piece. Li�s firm, Hutchison Whampoa, manages of two ports in the Panama Canal and is now part owner of Global Crossing. On the state of workers in the Workers� State The editors of the Washington Post take aim at Communist China�s ruthless suppression of the rights of laborers to form non-Communist unions and its crackdown against the industrial protests of this year. It should be noted that the Communists are more than happy to extend their crackdown services to any foreigners filling their coffers with �investment capital.� On Taiwan Arnold Beichman, a columnist for the Washington Times, spends the first half his column praising Taiwan for its prosperous democracy. The second half collapses into incoherence when he criticizes ROC President Chen Shui-bian for calling Taiwan a �country.� There�s still time to contact the President and tell him not to appoint pro-PRC Doug Paal as de facto ambassador to Taiwan. On the Economic Rise of Communist China Hilton Root, formerly a �senior adviser to the Department of the Treasury during the current Bush administration,� and now with the Economic Strategy Institute, attempts to make the case for economic engagement with the PRC. His Washington Post piece effort is better than most, but it falls short, ignoring both security issues and the shaky foundations of the supposedly red-hot Communist Chinese economy. Check out the latest on Communist China and the Terrorist War. Sign up for the North Korea Report; the next issue comes out on Monday. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our web site. Sign the Boycott Petition: In reaction to the decision of the International Olympic Committee awarding Beijing the 2008 Olympic Games, 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]. Please feel free to send any news on Communist China you happen to find to the same address. |