| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China October 22, 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 Si Yang, Voice of America (via Epoch Times), analyzes Communist Chinese leader Hu Jintao, and finds, for all the talks of new leadership and reform, that �the situation in most areas could remain virtually the same as before.� More on Hu Jintao Wang Zhiping, of Taiwan�s Central News Agency (via Epoch Times), contemplates the economic future of Communist China under Hu. On Communist China and the United States Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post, warns the United States not to ignore Asia � in particular India and Communist China. Unfortunately, his column does not differentiate between the two � quite an omission given Communist China�s anti-American designs and India�s democratic government and warming ties with the U.S. Ellen Bork, of the Project for the New American Century, and Jeff Bergner, of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, call on the European Union to continue its arms embargo against Communist China (the piece is a little old, but given the December 8 meeting referenced, it is certainly still relevant). Tim Luard, in the fifth installment of his BBC series on Communist China, ponders the future of the PRC as a superpower. For the first three installments, see the last Week�s Links. On the Falun Gong War The Epoch Times relays three articles on practitioners� travails. Zhou Rende chronicles the plight of Xiong Wei, who just left Communist China. Sean Seid talks to Jianfen Zhou, whose sister Theresa was just taken to a Communist labor camp. Huang Ailan, a practitioner living in Paris whose passport was revoked for her beliefs, tells her story in �First Person Singular.� On Energy in Communist China Matthew Forney, Time Asia, details the causes and effects of Communist China�s thirst for oil. Susan Jakes, also from Time Asia, examines the other energy options at the PRC�s disposal. On Culture in Communist China Tim Luard, BBC, laments the demise of traditional Chinese culture in the fourth installment of his series on Communist China. For the first three installments, see the last Week�s Links. On Taiwan The editors of the Taipei Times (via Washington Times) insist that the island democracy �must have an appropriate constitution,� instead of �the constitution of a non-existent country � the Republic of China.� On Tibet Alex Perry, Time Asia, interviews the Dalai Lama. As more details are found, they will be linked via the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the next Northern Korea Report (next edition goes out on Tuesday). 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. |