| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China August 27, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available: here, at Amazon, or call 1-888-280-7715. Link of the Week The editors of the Epoch Times take the prize for their profile of Huang Jingao, the cadre from Fujian Province whose clarion call against corruption was a People�s Republic cause c�l�bre until it came to the attention of the outside world (see 8/18 Update). Huang, who �has worn a bulletproof vest for six years and has written his will twice,� still vows to fight corruption. On the Velvet Crackdown (Hong Kong) The editors of the Washington Post sound the warning about Communist China�s interference in Hong Kong elections. On Communist China and the Olympics Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Hannah Beech, Time Asia, marvels at Communist China�s performance in the Athens Games, and looks forward to the Beijing event in 2008 showcasing �the very future of global sports.� Don�t read the column too close to your last meal. Licia Corbella�s Calgary Sun column is along the same vein. On Communist China and the United States The editors of the Epoch Times have their own look at the Buffalo customs incident, and found that �the active, prompt and honest response of American government� belied the Communist propaganda on the issue (see 8/5 Update). James Lilley, who served as Ambassador to the PRC and de facto Ambassador to Taiwan (but not at the same time), lets loose this whopper in Time Asia: �Looking back at Deng (Xiaoping), I am reminded of Harry Truman.� Last this quarter checked, Truman never ordered the shooting of innocent protestors during his tenure. Paul Craig Roberts, a Reagan-era Treasury official, uses his Washington Times column to warn of the consequences of America�s yawning trade imbalance with Communist China. On Human Rights in Communist China Catherine Rampell noted this reality for the publisher of PRC versions of American lifestyle magazines: �Her magazines� staff and censors, who often participate in focus groups, work in a �collaborative editorial effort.�� Rampell, MSNBC, calls this part of �liberalization.� Normal people call it �self-censorship.� On the State of Workers in the Workers� State Li Yongyan, Asia Times (via Epoch Times), looks past the Potemkin cities of Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen, to examine the plight of the impoverished rural interior, where hundreds of millions try to live on, at most, a dollar a day. Meanwhile, PRC college graduates are having a very hard time finding work, as Celia Hatton, Voice of America via Epoch Times, discovers. On the Ecology in Communist China Joshua Kurlantzick, The New Republic, details Communist China�s coming ecological disasters, what several environmentalist groups are doing to fight it, and how their efforts �have energized grassroots activism and suggested to ordinary Chinese that, ultimately only democracy will bring down corrupt officials and solve environmental problems.� On the Velvet Crackdown (Hong Kong) Wu Xueer and Ren Wanzi, Epoch Times, interviews Lin Feng, an exiled dissident who is now in Hong Kong to support a pro-democracy candidate in next month�s legislative elections. On Taiwan Gary Schmitt, of the Project for the New American Century, blasts Boeing for once again caring more about Communist China�s sensibilities than those of the elected leaders of Taiwan. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. 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]m. Please feel free to send any news on Communist China or North Korea that you happen to find to the same address. |