| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China March 19, 2004 Reminder: Future Week�s Links will be sent to the Yahoo Group list only (to prevent future viral problems), if you have not accepted the invite sent Wednesday, please do so now or you won�t receive the next Week�s Links (if you lost your invite but still want in, let me know at [email protected]). 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 The Washington Post translated the letter Dr. Jiang Yanyong (see 4/11/03 and last Week's Links) sent to the Communist legislature in which he called for the Party to admit that the Tiananmen Square massacre was a mistake. He ominously notes that he has �considered the consequences that I might encounter after writing this letter.� 0n Tomorrow�s Election in Taiwan Hours earlier this morning, President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu were shot. Neither was seriously hurt, but the Taiwanese people are stunned, as Angus Foster, BBC, discovered when he talked to some of them. Foster also tries to handicap the race itself, and finds it impossible to predict a winner. Philip Pan, Washington Post, has this analysis. Yours truly endorsed Chen�s re-election on the China Support Network (second item); it is also available via the Association for Asian Research. The BBC profiles Lien Chan, who could � heaven forefend � be the next President of Taiwan. The BBC also had an entire section, which isn�t too bad, on the cross-straits situation. Mike Chinoy, CNN, has his own analysis, which is none-too-subtly biased against Chen. Luis Ramirez, Voice of America via Epoch Times, is more even handed. Tim Luard, BBC, examines how Communist China is trying a more quiet approach (compared to 1996 and 2000) to get the result it wants. Claire Penketh, BBC, gives a quick sketch of Taiwan�s election economy. Andrew Perrin, Time Asia, finds Chen is boosted by a growing pro-Taiwan, anti-Communist sentiment. On the State of Workers in the Workers� State (and the U.S. economy) The battle over abuses of workers in Communist China was dramatically joined by the AFL-CIO, which filed a petition calling on President Bush to place tariffs on PRC goods due to the worker abuses and its inevitable reduction of wages, which pulls jobs from the U.S. Harold Meyerson, Washington Post, calls on the President to agree to the much-needed petition. More On Human Rights In Communist China Hope Radio�s �Voice of San Francisco Bay Area� interviews Bao Tong, the former top political aide to Zhao Ziyang � the Communist Party boss bounced from his post by Deng Xiaoping for his sympathy with the Tiananmen Square protestors (see 10/19/01 Week�s Links). He discussed the Communist monitoring of the Internet and the Falun Gong crackdown. Joseph Farah, founder of World Net Daily, gives an excellent summary of Communist China�s �brute tyranny,� and why the day will come when it will be a threat to the U.S., if that day is not �already here.� The Epoch Times interviews Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian Senator and leading campaigner for human rights in Communist China. Hannah Beech, Time Asia, details the risks of reporting in Communist China, particularly when the cadres don�t like the story. Susan Jakes, also of Time Asia, finds similar obstacles for genuine � as opposed to Communist-spawned � social workers in the PRC. On Communist China and the Terrorist War Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Henry Sokolski, of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, calls on the U.S. to focus on �stopping Pakistan's planned reactor import from China,� in National Review Online. Randall Parker, Parapundit founder and Member since 2003, also weighs in. Gal Luft and Anne Korin (of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security) see Communist China�s future demand for oil pointing in one direction � Wahhabist Saudi Arabia � in Commentary (link courtesy the aforementioned Randall Parker). On �Intra-party democracy� Philip P. Pan, Washington Post, examines Communist Party boss Hu Jintao�s latest push for �intra-party democracy.� The piece starts in typical na�ve fashion, but Pan does reveals the rampant skepticism toward Hu felt by supporters of real reform. On Communist China and AIDS Roger Bates, of the health-advocacy group Africa Fighting Malaria, rakes the Communists over the coals for not coming to grips with the AIDS epidemic in the PRC (and he didn�t even mention the blood-drive scandal that infected one million in Henan), in NRO. On Communist China and North Korea Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. William Triplett, in National Review Online, excerpts his new book: Rogue State: How a Nuclear North Korea Threatens America. Triplett�s final excerpt deals with Communist China�s role in the Stalinist regime. On Communist China and Latin America Two pieces from Newsmax writers detail Communist China�s growing influence in Latin America: Phil Brennan focuses on Brazil, while Dr. Constantine C. Menges examines the region as a whole. On Communist China and France Charles R. Smith, Newsmax, places the joint PRC-France naval exercises in the context of Jacques Chirac�s �engagement� of Communist China. On Hong Kong Du Yilong, Epoch Times, blasts the Communists for their propaganda campaign against the pro-democracy forces in Hong Kong. Edward Cody, Washington Post, looks at the difference between restive Hong Kong and quiet Macau. Susan Jakes, Time Asia, examines the current political situation in the city. 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. |