| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China July 23, 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. Links of the Week: the Falun Gong War Suman Srinivasan, Epoch Times, looks back and laments the Communist crackdown against Falun Gong, which began five years ago this week. Pan Hu, in National Review Online does the same, and reminds all �that dictatorships target innocent people by nature, not merely by practice, and that none can be free until all are free.� The Epoch Times also sent a reporter to South Africa to follow the fate of shooting victim David Liang (see 7/9 and last Week�s Links). More on Human Rights in China Mike Chinoy, CNN, talks to activist Hu Jia about PRC attempts to break Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the recently released SARS-whistleblower and Tiananmen critic (see 7/9 and last Week�s Links). More on Communist China and the United States Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The China Support Network lists the latest wake-up calls on PRC intentions (echo chamber alert: the evidence came via this quarter, as CSN was kind enough to note). Sadly, the editors of the Washington Post still don�t quite get it. Meanwhile, Lev Navrozov, in Newsmax, finds unexpected wisdom in a nanotechnology forum (from one of the speakers, anyway). Beth R. Alexander, United Press International (via Washington Times) interviews Ted Galen Carpenter of the Cato Institute regarding the dispute between Communist China and Taiwan. Carpenter has a good read on the state of affairs, but his opinion on what the U.S. should do (stay �out of the line of fire� rather than defend the island democracy) is very disappointing. William C. Triplett II, in the Washington Times, details Senator and Democratic Presidential Nominee John Kerry�s pitiful record on Communist China. World Net Daily finds ex-National Security Advisor Samuel Berger willing to appease of the PRC (although his dovishness on the Hainan outrage from the 4/13/01 Week�s Links was sufficient evidence of that). Note: the above links are not to be taken as endorsements of President Bush, who has been rightly seared on his troublesome Communist China policies by this quarter. On Communist China�s Future Ellen Bork, of the Project for the New American Century, examines what �engagement� and �prosperity� mean for Communist China in her review of Losing the New China, China�s Democratic Future, and Wild Grass, in the Weekly Standard (via PNAC). On the Communist Chinese Economy Economist Nicolas Bouzou, in the Ludvig von Mises Institute, examines the PRC economy, and finds that the Communists� heavy economic intervention has created a dangerous bubble. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition 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. |