| Link of the Week Ann Noonan, of the Laogai Research Foundation, examines the horrific effects of the PRC�s �one child� policy: (National Review Online) On the Hainan Payment Ted Galen Carpenter, of the Cato Institute, blasts the Administration for its $34,000 offer to Communist China for �costs� incurred in the Hainan flap. He writes in National Review Online, �Giving any payment would reward China for conduct that violated international law in multiple ways.� Amen. (There�s still time to make your voice heard in Congress to stop the payment from happening. The e-Lobby has the addresses of � of the U.S. Congress, and a sample letter to send them. Requests for both can be sent to [email protected].) On the Cultural Revolution Jay Nordlinger profiles Youqin Wang, a lecturer at University of Chicago who has spent her life �uncovering and documenting the depravity and crimes of the Cultural Revolution,� the mass murder and purge which Nordlinger rightly describes as �that outbreak of evil in China that lasted from 1966 to 1977.� Links: Nordlinger - Weekly Standard, Wang�s web site on the victims of the Cultural Revolution On the Communist Olympiad of 2008 Paul Zimmerman (the Dr. Z of Sports Illustrated and CNNSI.com) almost never gets political, but halfway into his column on college football, he lets loose at Communist China winning the Games, and what it could mean. On China�s Democracy Activists About a third of the way into his �Impromptus� column in National Review Online (past the Condit bullets), Nordlinger recounts his interviews with two democracy activists from Communist China (one of them is Wang). There are a couple of other PRC notes about 2/3 of the way down. On the Effects of Corruption in Communist Chinese Society Willy Wo-Lap Lam (CNN) writes a devastating account of the mass corruption in Communist China, and how it even goes so far as to effect students entering college On Defense Policy William R. Hawkins, of the U.S. Business and Industry Council Educational Foundation, examines the latest round of U.S. defense cuts, and what they mean for American foreign policy, in the Washington Times. Other Links John Derbyshire, in the Washington Times, reviews The Coming Collapse of China, by Gordon Chang. He also examines how the Chinese people view their Communist overlords in �Derb Does China Part IX� (National Review Online). He�s gloomy at first, regarding local reaction to the Hainan outrage, but remains hopeful as he sees that �People know what democracy means, and why they need it� as his column ends. Links: Review in Washington Times, China Notes: Part IX, in NRO, Last Days in China, NRO Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested in receiving this. Anyone who wishes to join can send his/her name and e-mail address to [email protected]. Please visit our web site. |