| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China July 25, 2003 Link of the Week Randall Parker, Parapundit founder and Member since 2003, gives a pointed and detailed account of the horrific North Korean regime, how Communist China props it up, and why any attempt to strike a deal with North Korea is pointless. More On North Korea The editors of the Washington Times, in their analysis of the North Korean situation, have hope that Communist China will help the U.S. resolve the issue. Sign up for the North Korea Report before the next edition is sent on Monday. On Hong Kong Ellen Bork, deputy director at the Project for the New American Century, demands that the Bush Administration push Communist China on Hong Kong to keep the city�s precarious freedoms and bring full-fledged democracy to it, in the Weekly Standard. On PRC Rival India Alan Cooperman, Washington Post, finds that the spirit of cooperation between India and Israel has spread to its expatriate lobbying groups here. This could mean � although Cooperman doesn�t discuss it � the powerful Israel lobby joining to the anti-Communist cause. On Burma Morton Abramowitz, in the Washington Times, calls on the U.S. to �hold China's feet to the fire� on the military junta in Burma. Communist China is one of Burma�s very few allies. On Tony Blair�s Trip to Communist China Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN, examines the goals of Tony Blair�s trip to Communist China. On the Falun Gong War Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, covers this week�s rally for Falun Gong (see last Update), and examines the Communist propaganda campaign against the movement, as well as the continued resistance of the practitioners (Link courtesy Susan Prager, Member since 2003). On Escapees and �snakeheads� Liz Carney, BBC, examines the plight of escapees from Communist China forced into �slavery� to payoff massive fees to criminal groups that helped them escape. If the police discover them, they go back to the PRC, assuming the �snakeheads� let them live that long. On Communist China and SARS David Brown, Washington Post, gives some disturbing praise to �China's authoritarian political structure� in the battle against SARS � very much belittling the effect of the Communist cover-up that allowed the disease to spread around the world. On Communist China and Trade William R. Hawkins, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the U.S. Business and Industry Council, details the damage economic �engagement� with Communist China has done to the U.S., both economically and geopolitically, in Trade Alert. On the Xiamen Smuggling Scandal DeNeen L. Brown, Washington Post, interviews Lai Changxing, the reputed central figure in the multi-billion dollar smuggling scandal in Xiamen that has ensnared hundreds of Communist officials, and likely involved high-ranking cadres who have so far managed to avoid punishment. Lai, currently in Canada fighting extradition, is sure he�ll be executed in the PRC. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. 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. |