| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China July 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 CNN�s Willy Lam takes the to prize with his insightful sketch in the Association for Asian Research of how the Bush Administration is starting to notice Communist China�s aggressiveness against Taiwan and other American allies in Asia, as well as �Beijing's failure to put real pressure on Pyongyang regarding the dismantling of its nuclear programs.� On the Good Doctor (Jiang Yanyong) The U.S. State Department, through Voice of America (via China Support Network), blasts the imprisonment and attempted brainwashing of Doctor Jiang Yanyong, SARS whistleblower and Tiananmen critic, and calls for �the Chinese government �to reassess� the Tiananmen events� (see last Week�s Links). Susan Jakes, Time Asia, also examines the plight of the good doctor, and finds its has a lot to do with the fact �that he has crossed Jiang Zemin, China's former President and current Chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission.� Radio Free Asia (via Epoch Times) spoke with hi daughter, Jiang Rui, to discover what is fueling Dr. Jiang�s determination to stand up for those who died on June 4, 1989. More on Communist China and the United States Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Lev Navrozov, Newsmax, has yet another warning (all as necessary as they are unheard) on the need for the U.S. to focus on the nanotechnology arms race with Communist China. On Communist China and Canada Ezra Levant, editor of the Western Standard and columnist for the Calgary Sun, demands to know why Communist China is �the No.1 recipient of Canadian foreign aid� in light of the regime's abhorrent record on human rights. On The Falun Gong Shooting Sharon Kilarski, Epoch Times (and author of the previous Link of the Week), finds the Communist response to the shooting of Falun Gong practitioners in South Africa very telling, �both in what it says, and what it doesn't say.� Mengsheng Gu of the Falun Dafa Information Center recaps the case, and Zeng Qinghong�s ties to it, also in the Epoch Times. Exiled dissident Ning Ye weighed in on the shooting to the China Support Network. Shang Ziyun, also in Epoch Times, puts the shooting in its historical context, and details the Chinese Communist Party�s long history of assassination and attempted murder. More on the Falun Gong War Zhang Yu, in the Epoch Times, details her abusive treatment by officials at Communist China�s consulate in Australia. The consulate cadres, in refusing to extend her passport, �took away my right to be a Chinese citizen, and changed me to someone with no nationality.� On the Velvet Crackdown (Hong Kong) Michael Elliot, Time Asia, notes how the Hong Kong people�s demand for democracy fits in well with a growing Asian trend away from dictatorship, a trend in which repressive regimes like Communist China �are beginning to look like outliers.� On the Scandals Surrounding Packaged Foods Gao Hao, Epoch Times, blasts the Communist regime for being corrupt enough to allow so many false and dangerous products onto the shelves throughout the PRC (see also 5/7 and 6/11 Week�s Links). On the Communist Chinese Economy Randall Parker, Parapundit founder (and Member since 2003), examines the potential of Communist China�s economic future, including the probability it will surpass the U.S. as �the largest economy in the world.� On Communist China and AIDS Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC, visits Henan Province, land of the blood-drive AIDS epidemic, and finds the supposed changed attitude of the Communists left a lot to be desired, while the local cadres were still willing to arrest anyone who said the wrong thing about the epidemic. On the Gender Imbalance in Communist China Pepperdine Professor James Q. Wilson uses Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea M. den Boer�s Bare Branches to examine the effect of Communist China�s hideous �one child� policy on the PRC�s upcoming gender imbalance, in the Wall Street Journal. 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. |