| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China December 18, 2003 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available! My book detailing Communist China�s history of aiding terrorist states, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, and al Qaeda can be ordered here, at Barnes and Noble, or at Amazon. � D.J. McGuire Link of the Week Du Daobin, the Epoch Times (HK) columnist still in a Communist prison cell (see 11/21, 11/26, 12/5, and last Week�s Links), turned the People�s Republic�s own history against its present regime in this dissection of the Communists� use of the �subversion of state power� charge against dissidents. On Taiwan Robert Kagan and William Kristol are not finished with President Bush�s slap in Taiwan�s face (see last Week�s Links). They rip the President again in the Weekly Standard for a �kowtow that would have made Bill Clinton blush.� They call on Bush to �revert to his core principles and make clear that the United States supports the Taiwanese democracy.� John Derbyshire, National Review Online (and Member since 2002), decides, somewhat painfully (and in the view of this quarter, quite incorrectly), that Bush�s �mild criticisms of Taiwan's up-for-reelection president� was worth �any assurances we got from Wen Jiabao last week� (Note: Derbyshire himself admits the �assurances� must be taken with a lump of salt). Ross Munro, director of Asian studies at the Center for Security Studies, is far nastier to the island democracy, accusing President Chen Shui-bian of �jeopardizing vital U.S. interests for personal political gain,� in NRO. Jim Hoagland, Washington Post, finds �less than meets the eye� to Bush�s rebuke to Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian. Ed Lanfranco, United Press International, weighs in on the Communist threat to the island democracy in the Washington Times. On Russia and Communist China Barry Farber, Newsmax, explains his concerns over Communist China and Russia, the PRC�s biggest arms supplier. From the Front Lines of the Falun Gong War Ben Hurley, Epoch Times, talks to Grant Lu, a Falun Gong practitioner whose fianc�e and fellow practitioner Li Ying spent two years in a Shanghai labor camp � making toys likely imported here � and was �force-fed with a rubber tube� after trying to go on a hunger strike. The Communists recently let Li return to Australia. More on Religious Persecution in Communist China Patrick Goodenough, Cybercast News, talks to Christian activists and highlights the somewhat lesser known, but certainly not less vicious, Communist persecution of Protestants who reject the Communist-run �Three Self Patriotic Movement� for non-Communist �house churches.� On the Impoverished Rural Interior The Epoch Times tells the painful tale of three farmers in Tongmu Township who took their own lives because they either could not pay heavy fines imposed by local Communist cadres or refused to collect the fees for the cadres. On Communist China and Trade Communist China desperately wants to get their hands on high-tech American products, including semi-conductors and other computer components. Radio Free Asia via the Epoch Times, examines why it�s not happening any time soon. Richard Rahn, of the Cato Institute, espouses the na�ve �engagement� line on Communist China in the Washington Times. Meanwhile, Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post, details the reactions in Italy's textile industry to Communist China�s encroachment into its markets. On Communist China and Africa Patrick Goodenough, Cybercast News, details Communist China�s growing influence in Africa. On the Russian (For Now) Far East Rosie Goldsmith, BBC, reports from Khabarovsk, in the Russian Far East, a vast region full of unexploited resources and � to the chagrin of locals � Chinese immigrants. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a 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. |