| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China August 20, 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 John Kusumi, Executive Director of The China Support Network (and member since 2003), calls for the 2008 Olympics to be ABC � Anywhere But (Communist) China � in the Epoch Times. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. From the Washington Post Although it�s only one paragraph in a larger column on the President�s military re-alignment plan, the editors hit the nail squarely on the head in their criticism: �China is increasingly throwing its weight around Southeast Asia; countries there that want a U.S. counterbalance, even if they do not always dare say so, will become less confident.� Indeed. Meanwhile, Edward Cody has a piece on Communist China�s latest supposed battle against �pornography.� Sadly, Cody does not include the well-known fact that Communist China has repeatedly cloaked its crackdowns against internet dissidents as anti-porn campaigns. More On Communist China and the United States CSN Executive Director Kusumi talks to the Epoch Times about the state of affairs in Communist China, and why the U.S. seems to pay so little attention to it. On the Fate of Chinese Dissidents in Australia Seventeen prominent Chinese dissidents wrote an open letter to Australian Prime Minister John Howard calling on him to reverse his government�s rejection of asylum for Zhao Jing, assistant to law professor Yuan Hongbing (reprinted by China Support Network). On the State of Workers in the Workers� State Chen Chingsong, Epoch Times, reveals how rising poverty in Communist China exposes the weaknesses and dangers of totalitarianism. Meanwhile, the Epoch Times editors take a look at the frayed net that the PRC�s health care system has become. The Communists� abuses against their own workers even extend beyond PRC borders, as Leeshai Lemish, also in the Epoch Times, discovered in Cambodia. On Corruption in Communist China He Qinglian, who was once a favored economist in Communist China and is now an exiled critic of the regime, details in the Epoch Times how corruption in the PRC has become so commonplace that it has even taken over the �Anti-Corruption Campaign� On the Jiang-Hu Rivalry Zhang Weiguo, Association for Asian Research (via Epoch Times), sees Central Military Commission Chairman Jiang Zemin as weaker than he appears, and the battle between him and Party boss Hu Jintao approaching high noon. Meanwhile, Wang Chu, Asia Times (via Epoch Times) chronicles how the late Deng Xiaoping�s 100th birthday fits into the battle. On Taiwan and Hong Kong Eric Teo Chu Cheow, Council Secretary of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, sees trouble for Communist China in upcoming legislative elections in Hong Kong and Taiwan in a China Brief (via Epoch Times) column, and thinks it could impact the aforementioned Jiang-Hu power struggle. More on Taiwan Professor Chang Ching-his gives his insight on the danger Taiwanese who invest in Communist China face in an Epoch Times column. Matthew Forney, Time Asia, examines the implications, diplomatic and political, of Taiwan�s recent military simulations. On North Korea Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. Austin Ramzay, in Time Asia, examines the implications over the argument between Communist China and South Korea over who can claim title to the mid-first millennium kingdom of Koguryo (see also 1/28 Update). Richard Spenser, London Daily Telegraph (via Washington Times) also weighs in on the subject. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. 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. |