| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China December 26, 2003 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available! My book detailing Communist China�s history of aiding terrorist states, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, and al Qaeda can be ordered here, at Barnes and Noble, or at Amazon. � D.J. McGuire Link of the Week: On the State of Workers in the Workers� State Arnold Beichman, Washington Times, blasts Communist China�s treatment of its industrial laborers � including the abolishment of the right to strike � the Western companies using those anti-labor practices to cash in on the resulting cheap labor costs, and the International Labor Organization for continuing to include Communist China as a member in good standing. On Christianity in Communist China Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor of National Review Online (and member since 2002), interviews David Aikman, author of Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power. Aikman discusses the continuing rise of Christianity in the PRC, and calls for the U.S. to �constantly make it clear to the Chinese government that freedom of conscience is the only acceptable form of policy on religious matters.� On Human Rights in Communist China Matthew Little, Epoch Times (HK), laments the Communists� horrific human rights record. Greg Easterbrook, in his New Republic blog, has this unwarranted praise for the Communist-run People�s Daily. Holly Williams, BBC, examines the divide between Catholics in the Communist-run �Patriotic� church and the underground Church loyal to the Vatican. Williams talks to those from the Communist side of the divide � �Members of China's secret Catholic Church who I contacted were too frightened to talk.� On Taiwan Andrew Perrin, Time Asia, notes the rattled nerves on Taiwan after President Bush�s hideous comments on President Chen Shui-bian�s referendum drive (see 12/12 and last Week�s Links). Meanwhile, former Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, in World Net Daily, follows Bill Kristol, the Washington Post, and others in blasting the President�s kowtow to Beijing. George Wehrfritz, Newsweek Intl., finds support for reunification with the mainland vanishing in Taiwan, and that President Chen Shui-bian, far from being a dangerous maverick, is in fact merely reflecting a �consensus (that) has shifted 180 degrees from one that favored eventual unification to the view that Taiwan must remain independent.� On Communist China and the United States Charles R. Smith, Newsmax, details how the Communist Chinese military was able to pilfer American technology during the 1990s. Lev Navrozov, Newsmax, has another column on the state of American nanotechnology � such as it is � in comparison with that of Communist China. A Man to Watch Robin Wright, Washington Post, profiles Robert Blackwill, a possible successor to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Blackwill, U.S. Ambassador to India for two years, �oversaw one of the fastest transformations in relations between the United States and any country by peaceful means,� and greatly improved U.S. ties to the longtime PRC rival. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. 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. |