| CHINA E-LOBBY UPDATE: OCTOBER 25, 2000 TOP STORY: INVESTIGATION INTO COMMUNIST CHINESE SPYING SHIFTS TO MISSILES FINISHED TRANSLATION OF DEFECTOR�S CACHE OF DOCUMENTS LEADS TO NEW FOCUS After nearly three years of examining efforts by Communist China to steal American nuclear secrets through espionage, the FBI and CIA are shifting their investigation to areas of missile technology, according to the Washington Post. The paper reported the change in emphasis came after the CIA finished translating the documents a defector gave them in 1995. A partial translation led to the investigation on nuclear secrets. Link: Washington Post The CIA was slow to translate them because they feared the defector was a double agent. Still, thanks to continuing pressure from the FBI, the translation was completed last year. The People�s Republic of China most likely took the missile secrets from defense officials or missile contractors, according to the paper. OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS 50 COMMUNIST CHINESE WEAPONS FIRMS CLEARED TO BUY ADVANCED U.S. TECHNOLOGY The Washington Times reported last week that 50 Communist Chinese firms have been cleared to directly purchase advanced U.S. technology, including high-powered computers, under new export rules. In a letter to President Clinton, conservative Senator Jesse Helms (Republican-North Carolina) and liberal colleague Russell Feingold (Democrat-Wisconsin) vigorously protested the new, more lenient, rules. Link: Washington Times NORTH KOREA AND COMMUNIST CHINA REAFFIRM ALLIANCE BEFORE ALBRIGHT TRIP One day before U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visit North Korean Communist leader Kim Jong-Il, his defense minister joined with PRC Defense Minister Chi Haotian in reaffirming the decades-old alliance between the two regimes, according to Agence France Presse. The PRC is also a major source of military technology for North Korea, which has test-fired missiles capable of hitting Japan and South Korea. Link: AFP HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS NEWS EFFORT BY FRENCH TIBET SUPPORTERS FOR PRISONER RELEASE REBUFFED BY PRC The Communist Chinese embassy in France rejected an overture by a committee of Tibet supporters petitioning the release of Ngawang Sangarol a young nun sentenced a to long prison term for a non-violent independence demonstration. The group�s petition was rejected, despite having among them two French parliamentarians from the ruling French Socialist party. Link: AFP COMMUNIST CHINESE LEGISLATURE PREPARING NEW LAWS TO RESTRICT INTERNET The Communist legislature is drafting new laws to give legal cover to cracking down on internet dissent, according to AFP. The agency cited the Communist-run China Daily, which proclaimed new legislation was on the way to fight several internet crimes. This included �activity against the state,� which AFP characterized as �a catch-all phrase frequently used to muzzle opposition to the communist government.� Link: AFP UNDERGROUND PROTESTANT DIES AFTER POLICE BEATINGS Citing the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, AFP reported the death of Liu Haitao, an underground Protestant believer who died in police custody. The center reported Liu, who was only 19, was beaten so badly he came down with a fever and was vomiting constantly. The police refused to give him medical attention, and he died last week. Link: AFP ENVIRONMENTAL DISSIDENT ESCAPES TO SOUTHEAST ASIA Peng Ming, an ecological activist who founded the China Development Union as a vehicle to criticize Communist over-development, told Radio Free Asia he had escaped the PRC to avoid a second labor camp imprisonment. Peng, who served 18 months for his battles with the Communists on the environment, is now at an undisclosed location in Southeast Asia, according to AFP. His organization numbers 7,000 members. Link: AFP COMMUNIST CHINA�S ANTI-RELIGION HYSTERIA NOW AIMING AT TAOISM BBC reported today that Communist China has begun an investigation of the Shuangfeng County party after it hired a Taoist priest to perform �a ceremony to exorcise evil spirits.� The priest was requested after a guard died falling out a window of the building. The use of the priest was a stunning reminder of the Communists� continuing failure to snuff out traditional faith despite massive crackdowns, arrests, and torture. Link: BBC COMMUNIST CHINA DENIES WIDESPREAD CHLD ABUSE REALITY AFP reported the tale of Doctor Hu Xiaoyu, whose sexual health hotline in Shanghai has become a haven for frightened children to report sexual abuse by parents or teachers. Statistics on the matter are nonexistent, but the avalanche of calls, mostly from teenage boys, stunned Doctor Hu. The Communists refuse to discuss the issue, calling abuse a Western problem. Link: AFP CORRUPTION NEWS MAJOR CORRUPTION IN THREE GORGES DAM PROJECT DENIED Communist China tried to dismiss charges of corruption and protests regarding the mammoth disaster known as the Three Gorges Dam hydroelectric project. The vision of Tiananmen butcher Li Peng, which several outside analysts have called an ecological, economic, and cultural nightmare, has been the reported victim of massive smuggling and widespread protests. A PRC official said �only� $3.4 million was stolen. Link: AFP COMMUNISTS HOPING A CRACKDOWN ON MINSTRESSES WILL AID CORRUPTION BATTLE . . . The Communist-run China Daily reported this week that the Communist leadership is considering new laws to fight �the epidemic of extra-marital affairs,� which has been seen most in � the Communist leadership. According to AFP, Communist China is hoping that cracking down on mistresses will aid their battle against corruption. Link: AFP . . . AND ALSO TURN TO OUTSIDE WORLD FOR HELP At the recent Asia-Europe Meeting in Seoul (see below), Communist China helped push through an anti-corruption resolution. Sun Yuxi, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, admitted the reason in part was to enlist the help of the other countries in tracking down corrupt officials who left the PRC, and the money they took with them. Link: AFP OTHER MAINLAND NEWS GANG MEMBERSHIP IN COMMUNIST CHINA PASSES ONE MILLION Yes, you saw that number correctly. According to Professor Cai Shaoqing, of Nanjing University, nearly one million residents in Communist China are gang members, dealing in everything from drugs and prostitution to helping people escape the PRC. The study said gang growth was fueled in part by, what else, corrupt Communist officials. Link: BBC MASSIVE MEMEORIALS PLANNED FOR ANNIVERSARY OF PRC INVOLVEMENT IN KOREAN WAR AFP reports that Communist China is planning �a series of memorial activities� to honor the roughly 900,000 �volunteers� who died in the Korean War when the PRC crossed the Yalu River to halt the American advance through North Korea. The PRC saved North Korea from near certain elimination, ensuring the Stalinist regime that has starved millions of its own people survived to this day. Link: AFP MASSIVE WATER DISTRIBUTION PLAN IN WORKS, COST REVEALED Faced with an increasingly ravaging drought in the north, Communist China has revealed their plan to divert Yangtze River water to the north with will roughly $18 billion. Environmentalists are already hitting the plan as unworkable, and BBC reported corruption is widespread in the project. Link: BBC INTERNATIONAL NEWS FRENCH PRESIDENT AND COMMUNIST CHINESE PM ARGUE ABOUT TAIWAN SATELLITE SALE French President Jacques Chirac and Communist China Prime Minister Zhu Rongji continued their argument in meetings this week over the sale of a satellite to Taiwan by a French company, according to AFP. The PRC said the satellite has military capability, but France and the firm selling the satellite have insisted it will only be used commercially. Link: AFP COMMUNIST CHINA�S WTO MEMBERSHIP HITS SNAG WITH EU OVER AGREEMENT AFP reported this week that Communist China�s bid to enter the WTO hit a new snag: the EU is insisting the PRC actually stick with the accord the two signed in May. The EU wants Communist China to grant seven licenses promised in the May agreement; the PRC wants to issue most of them after they enter the WTO. Two have already been issued. Link: AFP COMMUNIST CHINA OPENS MILITARY TALKS WITH PHILLIPINES OVER SPRATLYS The Philippine Star reported last week that Philippine General Angelo Reyes is meeting with top Communist Chinese army officials about the disputed Spratly Islands, which the two countries claim. While Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Brunei all join them in claiming the islands, Communist China has by far been the most aggressive in its attempt to take them. Link: Philippine Star COMMUNIST CHINA WHACKS JAPAN FOR JOINING U.S. THEATRE MISSILE DEFENSE Communist Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan told Japanese FM Yohei Kono that Japan should not join the Theatre Missile Defense (TMD) proposed by the United States. Tang said tensions in the Korean peninsula had reduced enough to make TMD unnecessary. The PRC is worried Taiwan may be included someday. Kono responded that �there is a concern about China�s defense budget� fueling TMD now. Link: AFP ASIA-EUROPE SUMMIT BEGINS IN SEOUL Seoul hosted the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) this week. This is the meeting the South Korean government gave as the reason it denied the Dalai Lama permission to enter their country. The Communists made their presence felt early, knocking out a reference to ally North Korea�s weapons of mass destruction in the proposed communiqu�. Link: AFP REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN) NEWS THREE NAVAL OFFICERS REPRIMANDED OVER FRENCH FRIGATE SALE Three former ROC naval officers received a harsh reprimand from the government�s watchdog, the Control Yuan, regarding the 1992 procurement of French naval frigates, according to the BBC. The purchase of the French frigates has remained highly controversial after eight years, with many insisting kickbacks were involved. President Chen Shui-bian vowed a full investigation of the issue during the recent campaign. Link: BBC COMMUNIST CHINA SAYS TRADE LINKS SHOULD BE SEPARATED FROM CROSS-STARIT BATTLES Wang Zaixi, an official with Communist China�s Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said establish trade links between the ROC and PRC should not be tied to the political tensions between the two governments. The Communists have always been desperate for more trade and investment from Taiwan. Due to rising self-confidence in themselves, Taiwanese have also warmed to the idea lately. Link: AFP COMMUNIST CHINA BLOCKING ROC REPRESENTATION AT REGIONAL SUMMIT They�re at it again. AFP reported this week that Communist China is trying to block Taiwan�s representative from joining the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit next month. The ROC has never been able to send its President to the annual summits since the group was formed in 1989, due to the Communists� objections. Link: AFP HONG KONG NEWS COMMUNISTS DEPLOY NEW MISSILES NEAR HONG KONG AFP reported this week that Communist China has deployed a new set of air-defense missiles to Shenzhen province, which borders Hong Kong. The missiles are to protect against a Taiwanese attack should Communist China invade the island democracy. A Taiwanese official once said Hong Kong could be attacked if the ROC were invaded. Link: AFP HONG KONG NABS 26 MORE CHINESE TRYING TO ESCAPE COMMUNISM Hong Kong discovered 26 stowaways in a shipping container, thwarting their efforts to escape Communist China for the United States, according to the BBC. The container had apparently been altered to allow for ventilation (many escapees have died during their flights). The desire to escape Communist China is so strong many pay tens of thousands to criminal groups to get out by stowaway or by fake documents. Link: BBC The battle to keep Chines trapped inside the PRC was highlighted again by a meeting between Hong Kong�s immigration chief, Ambrose Lee, and the Public Security director of Guangdong, Liang Guoju. Liang praised the cooperation of the two governments in battling the criminal organizations who profit handsomely for the people�s desperation and ensuring that the Communist prison remains as airtight as possible. Link: AFP TIBET NEWS DALAI LAMA VISITS NORTHERN IRELAND The Dalai Lama, Tibet�s spiritual leader, visited Northern Ireland for three days this week, hoping to help bridge the deep religious divide in the troubled province. He met with civic and religious leaders, attended a youth conference in Belfast, and spoke at the offices of Amnesty International. It was his first trip to Northern Ireland. Link: BBC XINJIANG/EAST TURKESTAN NEWS UIGHUR ACTIVIST TORTURED TO DEATH BY COMMUNISTS Abdulhelil Abdumijit, a Uighur Muslim protestor beaten during a 1997 demonstration, died in prison due to torture, according to AFP. Amnesty International said the Communists had sentenced Abdumijit to death for his role in the protest. The Communist bloody reaction to the protest refueled the battle between the PRC and Uighur independence supporters, who have been fighting Communist oppression for decades. Link: AFP Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested in receiving this. Anyone who wishes to join can send his/her name and e-mail address to [email protected]. |