| Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our web site. Link of the Week Peter Worthington, former editor of the Toronto Sun, followed and joined in demonstrations by Canadian Tibetans to counter the Communist Chinese propaganda event called the China Tibetan Culture Week. What they faced was a textbook example of how Communist China feels it has the right to maul any of its opponents, even in their democratic home countries. More On Tibet Aryn Baker of Time Asia reports on the first ever Miss Tibet beauty pageant, its purpose � to bring more publicity to the cause of the Tibetan people � and its many critics � including the elected Prime Minister of the government-in-exile. More on �Private Enterprise� in Communist China A flurry of stories on successful �private� businesses has hit the media as of late. Michael Schuman of Time Asia used the case of Yang Bin � the would-be head of North Korea�s Sinuiju special economic zone now under arrest in the PRC � to reveal the real world of �private� business, which of course does not have the same legal protection as state-owned enterprises. The resultant dependence on Communist officials to survive leads to an environment where �cheating is not only possible but is seemingly essential� and �behind every great Chinese company is a great crime � or at least accounting shenanigans that would make former Enron CFO Andy Fastow blush.� On Communist Chinese Political Prisoners Philip Pan (Washington Post) examines the return of political prisoner lists. The lists, given to the Communists by the U.S. highlighting certain prisoners, is controversial, and possibly encouraging the Communists to arrest others who wouldn�t make the list as �hostages,� but activist John Kamm is trying to invalidate that argument with a database that covers every prisoner in the PRC � he�s up to 6,500 so far. Check out the latest on Communist China and the Terrorist War. Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, due out on Monday. 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. |