| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China November 19, 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. The next Summer Olympics, in 2008, will take place in Beijing. Will the U.S. take part in a Communist Chinese version of the Munich Nazi propaganda event of 1936? Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Link of the Week Willy Lam, of both CNN and the Jamestown Foundation, has an excellent overview of Communist China�s blueprint for battling the United States during President Bush�s second term in the Epoch Times. Blog of the Week This week�s winner is actually a blog � Fabian�s Hammer. It has several excellent posts on Communist China. For this week, the Hammer covers outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell, PRC-Japan tensions, viewpoints on Zhao Ziyang, the rising discontent in Communist China, and the fall of corruption whistleblower Huang Jingao (see also last Update). On Communist China and the Terrorist War Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Robin Wright, Washington Post, examines what the PRC-Iran alliance means for the U.S. Jon E. Dougherty, Newsmax, provides more details on the subject. More On Communist China and the United States Paul Craig Roberts, Newsmax, details the economic dangers to the United States from Communist China�s deliberate currency devaluation. Sadly Roberts does not discuss the national security implications of the currency peg�s damage to America and her allies. Fred Abernathy and David Weil, of the Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research, don�t see Communist China wiping out American and other textile producers when the worldwide textile quota system ends this January in their Washington Post column. Fred Hiatt, Washington Post, wonders why the President�s public belief in the need to expand democracy seemingly absent in so many places, including �management of relations with China� despite the Communists� �chewing away on Hong Kong's freedoms, and continuing to lock up its own dissidents, journalists and priests.� Michael Elliot, Time Asia, takes the conventional �engagement� outlook on the upcoming Hu-Bush meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Chile next week. John King, CNN, examines all of the issues � Communist China included � that will come up at APEC. Jay Nordlinger, National Review Online, quizzes Condoleezza Rice on U.S.-PRC policy (before her stint in the Bush Administration). It�s not promising. Meanwhile, Charles Smith, Newsmax, goes down memory lane to review the Clinton Administration�s PRC ties. Patrick Goodenough, Cybercast News, talks to analysts contemplating the prospects of building �a sub-regional security architecture� in northeast Asia. A policy of treating Communist China for the enemy it is gets nary a word of mention, let alone support, from the aforementioned analysts. More On Communist China and Japan Tim Luard, BBC, examines the growing rift between Communist China and Japan, and title aside, finds more than simply oil tensions. On Communist China and the Rest of the World Richard Spencer, London Daily Telegraph, details how Communist China�s thirst for foreign oil is impacting the globe. On the State of the Workers in the Workers� State Philip Pan, Washington Post, examines the plight of taxi cab drivers in Dazhou, and their attempts to reverse a decision by local cadres to force them to buy expensive new taxi permits. It is another sadly typical tale of indifference Beijing, police arrests at home, and �faith in the ruling Communist Party that . . . has been shattered.� More On the Communist Chinese Economy Matthew Forney, Time Asia, finds the real reason Communist China�s �private� economy continues to function � �shadow banks� that are, in fact, still illegal in Communist China. More On the Communist Chinese Ecology Louisa Lim, BBC, talks to Liu Hongkui, whose battle against a local coke factory in Tangshan is a microcosm of the Communists� lack of concern for the ecological future of the PRC. On Taiwan Paul Lin, Association for Asian Research, opines in the Epoch Times that Hu Jintao�s tough line on Taiwan comes largely in response to prodding from recently retired Central Military Commission Chair Jiang Zemin. However, Lin�s focus on recent events doesn�t touch upon Hu�s longstanding hard line on Taiwan, and as such the analyst misses the forest for the trees. On Tibet Erling Hoh, Washington Times, has a piece on Communist development of Tibet that shockingly ignores the repressive political elements of it (although as this is the first of a two part series, the conclusion may spotlight what was missing this week � we can only hope). Sign up for the next Northern Korea Report (out on Monday). Miss an Update, Week's Links, or Northern 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. |