| Link of the Week Dr. Sonny Lo, an associate professor at Hong Kong University, painfully laments the decline of her city under Communist rule on CNN�s web site. More On Hong Kong as the Handover Anniversary Approaches Mike Chinoy, a CNN reporter, weighs in on the fate of the city�s freedoms under Communism. Christopher Maletz, Assistant Director of the Project for the New American Century, rips into Communist China�s arrest of an American Professor and refusal to allow pro-democracy exile Harry Wu into Hong Kong. On the State of Workers in the Workers� State Philip Pan, Washington Post, examines the plight of the workers of the Shenzhen Jianye Construction Co., who went to court to win pension money stolen from them by the Communist-run firm. It is a typical story of workers betrayed by the party and state supposedly founded in their name. Note on the last update A few of the links were left out of the in the June 26 update. They were reference links to earlier updates. The update has now been posted to the web site, with all the links included; humblest apologies for the error. Sign up for the North Korea Report; the next issue comes out on Monday. There�s still time to contact the President and tell him not to appoint pro-PRC Doug Paal as de facto ambassador to Taiwan. Check out the latest on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. 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. |