| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China November 24, 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 Zheng Yi, Epoch Times, details how Communist China�s wholesale land grabs and cadres� get-rich-quick corruption schemes spilled over into the mass protest � and killings � in Hanyuan County (see also 11/10, 11/17, and last Updates). On Communist China and the Terrorist War Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. The Epoch Times reprinted yours truly�s speech marking the anniversary of the Communist occupation of East Turkestan, and its relation to the War on Terror. More On Communist China and the United States William Hawkins, of the U.S. Business and Industry Council, painstakingly notes Communist China�s growing military threat to America, and the maddening reality of European and American firms fueling it, in the Washington Times. John E. Tamny, a �writer in Washington, D.C.,� defends the PRC devaluation of its currency in National Review Online with this Pollyannaish reasoning: �A stable currency relationship will insure that China and the U.S. trade with each other in the most honest way possible. Countries that have vibrant trading relationships also tend to not invade each other.� On Communist China and Japan Time Asia has four pieces on the friction between the Communist regime and is powerful democratic neighbor. Hannah Beech has two pieces on the subject (here and here), but she�s too deep in conventional wisdom to notice the Communist deliberate belligerence. Ditto Jim Frederick in his piece on Japan. Bill Powell would like to see both sides get past World War II, but his recognition of Japan�s unwillingness to submit to Communist China strikes a rarely acknowledged truth. Finally, the BBC takes stock of reaction in Communist China (and the Republic of Korea press) to Japan�s growing willingness to become a normal nation again, with a normal military. On the Hideous �One Child� Policy and the Shortage of Women Carol Pearson, Voice of America (via Epoch Times) talks to some of the living victims (and one perpetrator) of the shortage of women caused by �one child.� On the Cultural Revolution Edward Cody, Washington Post, finds the victims of Mao�s madness have decided to hide the horrors of that period from their children. 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. |