| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. Communist Chinese firm Norinco helped Iran build ballistic missiles. U.S. cancels all exports and contracts for PRC-owned firm, costing it �hundreds of millions.� Check it out on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China May 23, 2003 In remembrance of Memorial Day, the next North Korea Report, will go out on Tuesday, May 27. If you aren�t signed up for the North Korea Report yet, here�s your chance. Link of the Week The editors of the Washington Times see SARS, and the Communist secrecy of same, as a threat to �athletes, their trainers and the rest of their support staffs� at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They recommend: �If China's leaders fail to commit to openness on infectious diseases, the IOC should be prepared to take the 2008 Summer Olympics elsewhere.� More on Communist China and SARS Xu Wenli, a founder of the China Democracy Party in 1998, and now in force exile in the U.S., uses SARS to profile the Communist dictatorship, and exposes the lie of the �market reforms� in Communist China: �Most property is still channeled through the government . . . individuals can have no economic independence from the government.� The piece is in the Washington Post. David Wall, of Cambridge University, tracks the SARS political battle between Communist Party Chief Hu Jintao and Central Military Commission Chair Jiang Zemin, in the Japan Times, and concludes: �Jiang Zemin is back in control.� David Gratzer, a Toronto doctor, calls for a �coalition of the healthy� to prevent dictatorships from risking world infections such as SARS in the future, in National Review Online. On Taiwan, SARS and the WHO The editors of the Washington Post give the World Health Organization some well-deserved shots for not inviting Taiwan to join. Andrew Perrin, Time Asia, examines the outbreak and its effect on the island democracy. Mike Chinoy, CNN, looks at how Taiwan being shut out of the WHO has made matters worse and the effect the disease has had on hospitals in the island democracy. The Communist point of view came in a letter to the Post by Sun Wiede, a PRC Embassy staffer. On North Korea Sushil Seth presents a rare, realistic perspective of the PRC�s ambitions, and how North Korea fits into them, in the Taipei Times. E.J. Dionne, Washington Post, reminds America not to forget the veterans of the Korean War, and how they saved South Korea from the Stalinist North and its Communist Chinese ally. On Communist China and trade Jerry J. Jasinowski, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, calls for a change in trade policy with Communist China in the Washington Times. Some parts of it are pretty good; others are not. On Katrina Leung Notra Trulock, the former Energy Department counterintelligence official who first exposed PRC theft of American nuclear information, is saddened, but not surprised, that PRC double agent Katrina Leung managed to avoid facing charges of espionage (Newsmax). 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. |