| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China November 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. � D.J. McGuire The next Week�s Links will go out on Friday, as normally scheduled. Link of the Week Liu Xiabao, a dissident in Communist China�s capital placed under house arrest this spring during a meeting of the Communist legislature (see 3/12 Update), praises fellow dissident Zhang Xianling for her brave support for Du Daobin, the Epoch Times correspondent arrested by the Communists (see last Week�s Links). Zhang and Ding Zilin (who also supports Du) are the �Mothers of Tiananmen� � brave women who lost their sons in the June 4, 1989 massacre and have continually campaigned in their memory against the Communists� claims that the protestors were �counterrevolutionaries.� On North Korean Refugee �Wives� in Communist China Hannah Beech, Time Asia, talks to two women from Stalinist North Korea who escaped to Communist China by letting themselves be sold �as wives to Chinese men.� This very disturbing piece also includes their accounts of prison torture (both women spent time in the North�s horrifying prison system). On Yang Rong Robert Dole, the 1996 GOP nominee from President, is now representing Yang Rong, one of Communist China�s most successful businessmen, until the thoroughly corrupt Liaoning province seized his firm and tried to imprison him (see 10/2, 10/23, and 11/13 Updates). Dole, in the Washington Times, notes that this case reveals: �politics is sometimes more important than the rule of law and protection of private property.� On Corruption, Human Rights, and Jiang Zemin Dong Xiang magazine (Hong Kong, The Trend in English) emphasizes the significance of Shanghai attorney Zeng Enchong�s fight for his freedom against corrupt local cadres and their benefactor, Central Military Commission Chair Jiang Zemin. Hong Kong�s Epoch Times translated this excellent piece into English. Zeng is appealing a three-year prison term for �passing state secrets to foreigners.� His real crime is exposing the corrupt deal between Jiang-backed local cadres and �private� businessman Zhou Zhengyi to redevelop a piece of land and evict hundreds residents from it (see 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, and 10/29 Updates). On Communist China and Trade The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (via Newsmax) has this excellent piece on what Communist China is willing to do to maintain �not less than 8 percent a year and the authoritarian policies of the Communist Party of China.� This excellent piece details how PRC�s objectives could damage the American economy, and that none of it would be by accident. Bruce Bartlett, National Review Online, takes President Bush to task for limiting Communist Chinese import growth in textiles. As is usual with Bartlett, the national security issues are ignored. Neil Gough, Time Asia, also weighs in, and also ignores national security. More on the Economy in Communist China Is the Communist Chinese economy on a bubble? That�s the question Matthew Forney of Time Asia asks, and his answer is, yes. On Taiwan John Derbyshire, National Review Online (and Member since 2002), talks Taiwanese history (next to last item), with a friend, and notes how the �unusually� benevolent Japanese rule over the island from 1895-1945 has helped fuel its sense of independent identity. On Hong Kong Chris Hogg, BBC, examines the political fallout from the pro-democracy success in Hong Kong district council elections. Mark McCord, Agence France Presse (via Epoch Times), comments on the launch of the city�s first political satire magazine, Spike. On East Turkestan and AIDS As if the Uighurs in East Turkestan don�t have enough to worry about � brutal Communist occupation, economic isolation, the Communist propaganda labeling them all as bin Ladenites, etc. � they now have a large part of their population felled by AIDS (Louisa Lim, BBC). 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. |