| Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our web site. Links of the Week Had to call a tie here. Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II discuss North Korea�s nuclear weapons program in the Washington Times, and they are the first on the subject to tie North Korea, and what to do about it to its 50-year-plus ally, Communist China. Charles R. Smith, in Newsmax.com, details Communist China and North Korea�s ties to terrorism � an excellent piece. More On Communist China, its allies, and the Terrorist War Meanwhile, Colonel Stanislav Lunev, the highest-ranking Soviet military intelligence official to defect, warns the U.S. (also in Newsmax.com) about Communist China�s exploitation of the terrorist war for their own objectives �against America and her friends and allies.� Finally, Jim Hoagland lays out a damning bill of indictment against PRC ally Pakistan, citing everything from its aid to North Korea�s nuclear ambitions to its support of terrorism in Kashmir. This exceptional piece can be found in the Washington Post. More On Communist Chinese Foreign Policy and North Korea Two differing views on how Communist China looks at the world around it, and in particular the North Korean nuclear situation, came yesterday from the same place, the Washington Post. John Pomfret sees a �mature� PRC �angered by the revelation� from its Stalinist ally. Glenn Kessler and Karen DeYoung, meanwhile, sees the PRC more concerned with using North Korea as a �buffer� against South Korea. On Today�s Bush-Jiang Summit The editors of the Washington Times, in a rare bout of naivete, express hope that Bush and Jiang can reach �common ground� on the North Korea issue in today�s summit. Meanwhile, Jay Nordlinger, in National Review Online, wonders why torturing dictators seem to get the first dibs as guests of President Bush at his ranch. Geraldine Carrol and Justin Webb, both from the BBC, also weigh in. On Human Rights in Communist China The Bush-Jiang summit created a lot of virtual ink on Communist China in NRO. Lana S. Han, a Falun Gong practitioner, takes stock of the Communist crackdown against the movement, and its propaganda victories against it, both in Communist China and the United States. Ann Noonan, of the Laogai Research Foundation, wonders if the State Department is starting to go soft on PRC religious persecution. Richard Richter, President of Radio Free Asia, takes a few well-deserved whacks at Communist China�s jamming of radio signals by RFA and Voice of America, and their battle against freedom on the internet (more on that directly below), in the Washington Post. On the �Great Red Firewall�: Communist China�s Blocking of the Internet Senator Jon Kyl (R-Arizona), and California Congressmen Chris Cox (R) and Tom Lantos (D) have an excellent piece in NRO ripping the Communist crackdown on the internet and its pressuring of internet service providers to censor themselves. On Taiwan Don Feder, in a great NRO piece, calls on Bush to �insist that China begin removing its missile arsenal from territory bordering the Taiwan Straits� and to also insist that Taiwan�s fate can be decide by the Taiwanese people alone. Phil Brennan (Newsmax.com) takes note of the Communist Chinese military build up to intimidate Taiwan and, further down the road, the U.S. On Hong Kong The editors of the New York Sun take aim at Hong Kong�s �anti-subversive� law, and call on President Bush to �signal to his barbecue buddy the value America places on Hong Kong�s remaining freedoms.� On Tibet Julie Chao (Cox News Service via Washington Times) examines the latest �charm offensive� by the Communists vis a vis Tibet. Meanwhile, Damien McElroy (London Daily Telegraph via Washington Times) visits Tibet, and still finds great reverence for the Dalai Lama. On the Not-So-Russian-Anymore Far East There has been a mass emigration of Chinese into Russia�s Far East regions, and the Russian people are growing increasingly nervous about it, according to Alexandr Nemets (Newsmax.com.). On the APEC Summit Lisa Barron (CNN) gives praise to Communist China�s roaring economy as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit nears. Barron does not discuss the growing skepticism of the glowing economic statistics Communist China puts out. Check out the latest on Communist China and the Terrorist War. Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, due out on Monday. 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 you happen to find to the same address. |