| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China December 23, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available here (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 The editors of the Washington Post score the upset with a brilliant analysis of Hu Jintao�s crackdown against the Chinese people. Their comment about the Bush Administration�s complacent response � �Its fecklessness compares favorably, however, with the cynicism of its European allies� � makes for a priceless editorial. More from the Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party The Epoch Times continues the English translation of their remarkable work: Part VI and Part VII (for Part�s I-V, see the 12/3, 12/10, and last Week�s Links). More on Human Rights in Communist China Susan Jakes, Time Asia, also takes note of the Hu crackdown, providing less eloquence than the Post, but more substance. Liu Di, also known as the Stainless Steel Mouse (see 11/12/03 and 12/3/03 Updates), talks to the Post (via MSNBC) about her arrest and her search for the informant who set her up. More on Communist China and the European Union Hans Bengtsson, Epoch Times, looks for reasons behind Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder�s push to end the European Union�s arms embargo against Communist China, and finds what one would expect � money. In the Netherlands, one man created an imaginary �Marxist-Leninist� party as an intelligence operation against the PRC. The BBC has his story. More on Communist China and the Rest of the World Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post, examines Communist China growing and deepening ties to the murderous regime of Sudan, and finds for the Communists, oil is thicker than blood. Charles Smith, Newsmax, details how one American �entrepreneur� made and stole millions on the backs of slave laborers in Communist China. Mary Hennock, BBC, chronicles the PRC�s emergence as �the next big thing� economically. Sadly, but unsurprisingly, Communist China�s threat to world liberty gets no mention here. On Taiwan Greg Mastel, in the Weekly Standard, asks the Bush Administration to make clear what the island democracy has to do to draw the U.S. eye away from appeasing Beijing. Time Asia lists President Chen Shui-bian as one of its �People Who Mattered� for 2004. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the next Northern Korea Report (out on Monday). 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. |