| Link of the Week Wes Vernon, Newsmax.com, looks at ex-President Bill Clinton�s policy history with Communist China. Backed by exiled dissident Harry Wu, Vernon is, shall we say, less than complimentary. More From Harry Wu In the last Week�s Links, Wes Vernon of Newsmax.com began a five-part series on exiled dissident Harry Wu�s Troublemaker, an expose of Communist China�s use of prison labor and its rise as a hostile power. Here is Part III and Part V (Part IV is the Link of the Week). On Communist China and Missiles Charles R. Smith looks into the 123 charges against Hughes Space and Communications Company and its parent, Boeing for technology transfers to Communist China that helped the PRC�s missile program, in Newsmax.com (see also 1/2/03 update). On Communist China and India Dr David Whitehouse, Science Editor for the BBC, examines the building of a new space race between Communist China and its South Asian rival India. On Communist China and North Korea Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN, and Wes Vernon, Newsmax.com, see Communist China beginning to use North Korea as a card to play in its never-ending quest to swallow the island democracy of Taiwan. Vernon examines the Communists� role in fueling the North�s nukes for that purpose, while Lam finds the PRC trying to exploit concessions out of the U.S. in exchange for supposed cooperation on its Stalinist ally. Adam Garfinkle comes close to correct on Communist China in noting that the PRC �prefers, however . . . that Korea not be unified.� However, in his National Review Online piece, he opines that the Communists will take a unified anti-Communist Korea over a nuclearized Japan, a debatable proposition at best. Mansoor Ijaz, head of a New York-based private equity investment firm, and ex-CIA Director R. James Woolsey call not only for a tough stand against North Korea, but also against its principal nuclear suppliers � Communist China and its Central Asian ally Pakistan � in the Los Angeles Times. Dr. Alexandr Nemets, Newsmax.com, examines the role of Russia and Communist China in the North Korean situation (Part I, Part II, Part III). Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, sent out every Monday. On Hu Jintao Erik Eckholm, in the New York Times, has this fawn piece on new Communist Party chief Hu Jintao. Eckholm starts by underestimating the real power of the Central Military Commission Chair � the post ex-party boss Jiang Zemin kept � and it goes downhill from there. If that link doesn�t go through, try accessing it through its mention by Andrew Stuttaford, of National Review, member since 2002. Meanwhile, Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN, hears whispers that Hu will push for some �political reforms,� but whether he is planning to improve the lot of the Chinese people or simply blunt the power of Central Military Commission Chairman Jiang Zemin�s Shanghai faction remains to be seen. Check out the latest on Communist China and the Terrorist War. 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 or North Korea that you happen to find to the same address. |