| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. Link of the Week William Triplett II begins his Washington Times column on Communist China�s role in North Korea�s nuclear ambitions with the following: �For those of us who wish the Bush administration well, its efforts to handle the Beijing-Pyongyang crisis are becoming too painful to watch.� From there, the column gets even better, regardless of what one may think of the Bush Administration. Triplett ends his searing and brilliant piece with this: �The road to Pyongyang does indeed lead through Beijing, but it's in unfriendly hands. Unless the administration recognizes this, it is doomed to share the failure of the Clinton administration. Success will require more hard realism and less wishful thinking.� Never were truer words spoken. More On Communist China and North Korea Claudia Rosett, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal Europe, demands to know why the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner for Refugees has done so little to help the North Korean refugees trapped in Communist China. Her painful account of their plight, and the UNHCR�s general indifference, is in the Weekly Standard. The editors of the Washington Times take note of Communist China's peacekeeping plans for the Congo, and wonder when the PRC will "demonstrate its commitment to world peace by taking a more constructive role in cleaning up its own backyard," i.e., its five-decade ally Stalinist North Korea. Ariel Cohen, in National Review Online, examines Russia�s role in the world, including its ties to Communist China and North Korea. Cohen is convinced Russia will work with Beijing and Washington to prevent Comrade Kim from going ballistic � and nuclear,� despite the fact that �Beijing� has been less than willing to play along. Lisa Rose Weaver, CNN, looks at the disaster that is North Korean economy, and Communist China�s role in keeping what�s left of the Stalinist regime afloat economically. Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, sent out every Monday. On Human Rights in Communist China Marianne Bray, CNN, profiles Joseph Zen, Roman Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong and a leading crusader against the Communist-appointed HK government�s �anti-subversion� law. Jay Nordlinger, in National Review Online, highlights the case of his friend, Yang Jianli, who was arrested while trying to re-enter Communist China last year in order to help labor protests in the northeast PRC (see 3/13/02, 3/20/02, 5/1/02, and 7/3/02 Updates). Olga Kryzhanovska, in the Washington Times, hears from the fianc�e of Charles Li � who languishes in a Communist jail for his supposed role in a Falun Gong takeover of a Communist TV station (see 1/30 Update) � and the nearly three-year-old crackdown on the spiritual movement in general. On Communist China and Iraq John L. Perry, in Newsmax.com, examines what a possible Communist Chinese veto of an U.S.-backed Security Council resolution authorizing military action against Iraq could mean. His answer: a much more hostile situation with �the always-sinister and rapidly developing People's Republic of China � an inevitable confrontation incalculably more expensive later on.� On that last point, Perry is dead on. Check out these stories and more on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. On the Communist Chinese Economy Tung Chen-Yuan, from the Institute of International Relations at National Chengchi University, examines the disparate views on the Communist Chinese economy, and the real problems within the PRC that the supposedly rapid economic growth barely hides, in the Taipei Times. Link courtesy Ron Vogel, member since 2000 On the FBI�s Recruitment of Students from Communist China Notra Trulock, the man who first uncovered Communist China�s espionage efforts at Los Alamos, examines the FBI�s new effort to recruit students from the PRC in the United States (see also 2/12 Update), in Newsmax.com. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our web site. 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 or North Korea that you happen to find to the same address. |