| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China March 21, 2003 Link of the Week Ellen Bork, of the Project for the New American Century, rips the European Union for continuing to toe the Communist Chinese line on Taiwan � to the point of nixing a proposed visit by Taiwan�s elected President Chen Shui-bian to the European Parliament. On Communist China, the UN, and the Terrorist War Charles Krauthammer, in the Washington Post, says the performance of the UN, including Communist China�s antics on North Korea, is reason enough to ignore it from now on. Francis Markus, BBC, tries to gauge the views of Muslims in the PRC on the war with Ba�athist Iraq. Unfortunately, he doesn�t get to anyone inside East Turkestan, home of the most pro-American Muslims on Earth. The Muslims Markus interviews �are highly assimilated into mainstream society.� Check out the latest on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. More On Communist China and North Korea Cathy Hong, Village Voice, highlights the plight of Jae-Hyun Seok, a photographer for the New York Times, who is languishing in a Communist Chinese jail cell for attempting to chronicle the escape of North Korean refugees from the PRC. The Communists send back any North Korean refugee �fleeing both starvation and Stalinism � that it can find. Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, sent out every Monday. More On Human Rights in Communist China Lana Han highlights the plight of Charles Li, an American citizen and Falun Gong practitioner, currently in jail for his beliefs, and calls on the U.S. to demand his return to the U.S., in National Review Online. On the New Faces in the Communist Leadership Matthew Forney profiles new Communist PM Wen Jiabao in Time Asia, and finds a polite bureaucrat who may not have the force of will to make the changes needed to keep the PRC economy going. On Condoms and Corruption in Communist China Whatever one thinks about birth control and the sexual revolution, it is doubtful anyone could defend Shanghai�s Drug Supply Center, a Communist agency that demands 25% of all condom sale revenues, and has a �private� firm owned by the agency head monopolizing the trade. John Pomfret exposed this little exercise in Communist muscle in the Washington Post. On Communist China and Asia Kenneth Williams, in Newsmax, finds ulterior motives behind Communist China�s push for regional trade. On Communist China and SARS (the Disease) Michael Ledeen, in National Review Online, is not ready to blame Communist China for keeping the disease a secret (and last Update) � at least, not the current Communist government. He notes Mao�s policy on venereal disease: �anyone with venereal disease was executed. Ever since, most Chinese stayed far away from medical doctors.� Things like that will have a role in thwarting efforts to fight any bug. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our home page. 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. |