| Want the latest on the North Korean refugees taken from the Japanese consulate in Shenyang? Don�t wait until Wednesday. Sign up for the North Korea Report and find out Monday! Link of the Week CNN�s Willy Wo-Lap Lam analyzes the forces from inside and outside the Communist Chinese Party that have left PRC President Jiang Zemin �gripped with fear.� On the North Korean Refugees Remember how East Germans escaping to the West through Hungary led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989? Rupert Wingfield-Hayes (BBC) does, and he reminds us that Communist China does too, which is in part why the PRC sends every North Korean refugee they find back to the Stalinist regime. Barbara Demick, of the Los Angeles Times, also weighs in. Meanwhile, the editors of the Washington Post aim the rhetorical double barrel at Communist China�s policy of sending back to North Korea any refugee from the Stalinist regime caught in the PRC. The editors of the Washington Times also weigh in, with harrowing accounts from the refugees themselves about life in North Korea. On Communist China and the Terrorist War Ariel Cohen, in National Review Online, examines the Communist China-Iran connection. Check out the latest on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. On the state of workers in the Workers� State Philip Pan, of the Washington Post, writes the obituary of Li Chunmei, a teenage victim of the nexus of Communist officials and their friends and relatives who manage the factories throughout the PRC. On Espionage The editors of the Washington Post ask the government not to seek the death penalty for would-be PRC spy Brian Regan. The editors did also mention that they �oppose the death penalty in all circumstances.� On Taiwan Representative Dana Rohrbacher (Republican-California) whacks the WHO for denying entry to Taiwan, again, under Communist pressure, in the Washington Times. What�s in a name? As Michael Bristow (BBC) reports, thanks to Communist Chinese threats, a lot more than there should be. There�s still time to contact the President and tell him not to appoint pro-PRC Doug Paal as de facto ambassador to Taiwan. 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. |