| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China June 18, 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. Link of the Week Score one more from mainstream media that understands Communist China! The editors of the Baltimore Sun throw some badly needed cold water on American investment in the PRC, which is likely �serving China's long-term, well-coordinated strategic plan to compete with American economic, military and political power.� Broder�s Naivet� David Broder, Washington Post, visited the Potemkin city of Shanghai, and came away duped. He praised the city�s anti-SARS efforts, blithely ignoring the widely known coverup of the disease in the city (see 4/30/03 Update). He even had the audacity to mayor �shares power with the Communist Party secretary.� No, David, the party boss has all the power. On Communist China and the United States Peter Brookes, of the Heritage Foundation, notes the many disturbing aspects of Communist China�s military buildup, and reminds his reader in Cybercast News that �China looms as America's biggest foreign-policy challenge in this century.� Christian Lowe, Weekly Standard, also examines this issue, and comes largely to the same conclusion. Brookes also examines the rise of Communist China, and what it means to the United States, in his New York Post review of Ethan Guttman�s Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce Desire and Betrayal. On the Velvet Crackdown (Hong Kong) Willy Wo-Lap Lam of CNN details how and why Communist China is using every trick in the book to thwart the will of the people n Hong Kong (this Jamestown Foundation piece was reprinted by the Epoch Times). Casualties of the Falun Gong War Fadu lost her father, a Falun Gong practitioner, when police took him into custody. The next time anyone saw her father, he was lying dead in an abandoned shed, a likely dumping ground for people killed in police custody. Fadu and her mother have been spreading the word on the horrific Communist crackdown ever since (report from Epoch Times). On Corruption in Communist China Tian Jing, Asian Times, discovers there�s embezzlement, and there�s embezzlement. If you�re a cadre-connected �businessman,� then $84 million equals three years in prison, but if you�re a muckraking journalist, $100,000 means twelve years in jail. On the Effects of Radical Nationalism in Communist China Du Yilong, in the Epoch Times, laments the corrosive effects of Communist-mandated radical nationalism on the younger residents of the People�s Republic. Whither Poland? That is the question Thai Ton (Epoch Times) asks as Communist President Hu Jintao visits the former Soviet and Nazi-occupied land. On Taiwan Caroline Gluck, BBC, talks to women from mainland China who tried to sneak into Taiwan � and are now stuck in Taiwanese detention centers because the PRC won�t take them back. Who do the women blame for their predicament? It�s not who you think. Meanwhile, Paul Risenhoover, China Support Network, finds Taiwan�s freedom and optimism very uplifting. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. 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. |