| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China June 20, 2003 Link of the Week The editors of the Washington Post join their cross-town rivals at the Times (see 6/6 Week�s Links) in blasting Hong Kong�s new �anti-subversion� law, and wondering why the Bush Administration has been silent on the subject. On the Corruption of Medicine in Communist China Matthew Forney, Time Asia, details how the Communist Party has imposed its will on doctors and hospitals. The depressing piece�s synopsis puts it best: �China's physicians must make life-and-death decisions using the Party's ethical compass�and death wins far too often.� On Sun Zhigang Susan Jakes, in Time Asia, examines the seedy and brutal forms of imprisonment known as �custody-and-repatriation� centers, one of which killed migrant worker Sun Zhigang last spring (see 5/28 and 6/11 Updates). Note: the Communists voided the law that led to these centers yesterday. On Falun Gong The spiritual movement gives this introduction in Cybercast News. On Corruption and Communist China Time Asia lists the most recent �private� businessmen in Communist China ensnared in corruption charges � although the comment on Yang Rong neglect to mention the efforts of the Communists to tar him in order to swallow up his car company (see 10/2/02, 10/23/02, 11/13/02, and 6/4 Updates). Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the North Korea Report before the next edition is sent 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. |