| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China April 18, 2003 Link of the Week Susan Jakes, Time Asia, has this shocking, but not really surprising, story on how Communist China continues to hide the truth about SARS from World Health Organization doctors. Among some of the tricks used were driving patients �around the city for several hours� and moving patients into hotels, all to keep the truth from the international community. �Some cadres are more intent on saving face than saving lives� That�s how Hannah Beech, of Time Asia, has her own investigation of the Communist cover-up of SARS, and the cost of the cover-up in lives lost: another well-written piece on a very disturbing subject. More On Communist China and SARS Fred Hyatt, Washington Post, notes how dictatorships can twist fact and fiction, and examines the results in pre-war Iraq and SARS-infected Communist China. John Pomfret, Washington Post, goes to Beijing and finds a city in panic. On the North Korea Talks Aidan Foster-Carter, of Leeds University, throws some badly needed cold water on the prospects for the U.S-NK-PRC talks this week. His BBC piece provides the skepticism on Kim Jong-il, and his ally, that seems to be alarmingly missing in Washington. Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, sent out every Monday. On Documentaries in Communist China Susan Jakes, Time Asia, examines the difficulties inherent in producing honest documentaries in Communist China � and this for a film genre generally ignored by the cadres due to a local audience that is �virtually nil.� More on �Parlor Maid� Katrina Leung Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, in Time, has this functional summary of the Katrina Leung-PRC-espionage disaster, although the last line � �Her American Dream is now a bleak nightmare.� � is a bit odd. At the risk of making a boast, the last Update is much more comprehensive on this story. On the Rural Interior Francis Markus, BBC, examines the plight of the PRC rural interior, and the messy attempts at �reform� by the Communist leadership. Tell Gay Hartwell Sills of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to kill the Global Crossing sale to Hutchison Whampoa. Check out the latest on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our home page. 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. |