| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China September 26, 2003 Link of the Week Ellen Bork, Deputy Director of the Project for the New American Century, notes that Hong Kong�s Basic Law is not nearly as democratic as many think, and rips the Bush Administration for not being tougher on the Communists� attempts to impose their iron rule on the city. On Communist China�s Currency Peg Larry Kudlow, National Review Online Economics Editor, marshals economic arguments against pushing the Communists to end their undervalued peg against the dollar. Like many others unwilling to push the Communists on the peg, he ignores the PRC�s threat to national security. Joshua Kurlantzick thinks Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut � who is also running for President � has a very bad idea with his bill to pressure Communist China to float its currency. Sadly, Kurlantzick, like Kudlow, ignores the national security issue in his �TNR Primary� (The New Republic) piece. Meanwhile, William R. Hawkins and Alan Tonelson, both from the U.S. Business and Industry Council take the other side (although they, too, largely skip national security). More on Communist China and the United States Lev Navrozov reprints his interview by Ryan Mauro of Tactical Defense Concepts on the subject of nanotechnology, and the new arms race between the U.S. and Communist China in that field, in Newsmax. On Communist China and Russia Dr. Alexandr Nemets, Newsmax, has more details on the biggest mutual arms dealing relationship in the world � Russia�s arms sales to Communist China. On Tibet Marc Kaufman, Washington Post, profiles the Dalai Lama, Tibet�s spiritual leader and head of its anti-Communist government-in-exile. Philip Pan, also in the Post, finds Tibetan culture newly popular among young Han Chinese, and the Communists determined to keep control over what the Chinese see and hear in the occupied nation. Thomas Axworthy, chairman of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, calls for his homeland to host talks between Communist China and Tibet in the Canadian National Post. It should be noted that Axworthy�s views on Communist China�s possible �constructive role� (there�s that phrase again!) in Asia is hopelessly na�ve. On Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin CNN�s Willy Wo-Lap Lam has the latest on the power struggle between the Communist Party boss (Hu) and the Central Military Commission Chair (Jiang). On Communist China and Cloning Tony Blankley, Washington Times, is very worried about Communist China�s determination to move forward on cloning. He describes the PRC thusly, �hell-bent for industrial levels of genetic manipulation and cloning, supported by the massive bioengineering research they are now beginning to fund.� Be afraid; be very afraid. On the Communist Edition of Hillary Clinton�s Memoirs Philip Pan, Washington Post, notes New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Clinton�s angry reaction to the Communists wiping out her criticism of them in the PRC-only version of her Living History (see also last Update). Sign up for the North Korea Report before the next edition is sent on Monday. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. 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. |