| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China March 28, 2003 Links of the Week Sarah Buckley, BBC, examines the reaction in Hong Kong to SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome, the fatal respiratory disease kept secret in Communist China for months. Marianne Bray, CNN, also examines Hong Kong�s reaction to the deadly disease. On Communist China and North Korea Doug Struck half-profiles Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, a fiery Japanese nationalist who is also one of the most anti-Communist, anti-Stalinist politicians in Japan. Struck forgets to mention Ishihara�s staunch opposition to Communist China in this Washington Post piece. Struck, also sees Communist China growing in influence in East Asia, at the expense of U.S., in an earlier Post piece. Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, sent out every Monday. On the Ecology in Communist China Francis Markus, BBC, examines the massive drought in northern Communist China, the damage it has done to the residents there, the massive project undertaken by the PRC to fix it, and what the water shortage could mean for the future of Communist China. On Chairman Mao and the Airbrushing of History Jay Nordlinger, in his National Review Online �Impromptus� column (seventh bullet) rips into Sotheby�s auction house for auctioning �Chinese Propaganda Art.� Nordlinger wonders �whether Sotheby's would blithely stage a Nazi-kitsch sale� (Mao killed far more people during his reign than Hitler did, though as Nordlinger notes �he had more bodies to work with.�). On Global Crossing George Putnam, Newsmax, has some tough words for Richard Perle, the (now former) head of the Defense Policy Board who also advised Global Crossing on winning government acceptance of its sale to Hutchison Whampoa, a relationship he ended yesterday (see 3/6/02, 8/14/02, 3/12, and last Updates). Tell Gay Hartwell Sills of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to kill the Global Crossing sale to Hutchison Whampoa. Check out the latest on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our home 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 or North Korea that you happen to find to the same address. |