| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China September 17, 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. The next Summer Olympics, in 2008, will take place in Beijing. Will the U.S. take part in a Communist Chinese version of the Munich Nazi propaganda event of 1936? Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Link of the Week The editors of the Epoch Times take the prize this week with �Diary of An Appellant�s Experience.� The experience was not pleasant. On the Velvet Crackdown (Hong Kong) The editors of the Washington Post remind the Communists that a large majority of Hong Kong citizens voted against them. Tim Luard, BBC, and Willy Lam, CNN, both note that Communist China will be pleased at its success at turning that popular majority into a legislative minority. The BBC also surveyed the reaction of the local press. On Communist Persecution Outside the PRC Leeshai Lemish gives the Epoch Times Part II of a series on the travails of PRC refugees in Cambodia. Many of the difficulties are visited upon them by the Communists and/or their pliant Cambodian allies (for Part I, see 8/20 Week�s Links). On the Hu-Jiang Rivalry Will Central Military Commission Chairman Jiang Zemin stay or will he go? Li Yong Yan, Asia Times, and Matthew Forney, Time Asia (via Epoch Times), try to answer that question. Luis Ramirez, Voice of America (via Epoch Times), and Eric Baculinao, NBC (via MSNBC) also weigh in, as does John Kusumi, China Support Network (and Member since 2003). �Engagement�: From the Other Side James Dorn, CATO Institute, admits to some national security concerns over our increasing trade with Communist China, but simply chooses to ignore them. Sebastian Mallaby, Washington Post, never mentions national security at all in his ode to trading with the PRC. More On Communist China and the United States Alexandr Nemets, Newsmax, details Communist China�s missile threat. Charles Smith, also in Newsmax, focuses on how PRC counterfeiting and piracy is damaging American business. The editors of the Washington Times have high praise for President Bush for maintaining �the military check on Red China's hegemonic interests in the region.� Lev Navrozov, in Newsmax, is much more skeptical about America�s realization of the Communist Chinese threat. On Corruption in Communist China Ching Cheong, Straits Times, examines the depth and breadth of corruption in Communist China, and the Party�s latest efforts to stop it. More On Hero John Derbyshire, columnist for National Review Online and Member since 2002, joins the chorus of critics against the movie Hero, and actually outdoes those in the last Week�s Links. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the next North Korea Report (out on Monday). Miss an Update, Week's Links, or 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. |