| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China May 28, 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. Due to Memorial Day, the next North Korea Report will be sent Tuesday, June 1 (Sign up). Link of the Week Charles R. Smith, Newsmax, examines the current military balance between the U.S. and Communist China, from jet fighters to missiles, and finds many reasons to worry. More On Communist China and the United States Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Gary Schmitt, of the Project for the New American Century, questions America�s willingness to let Communist China into the Nuclear Suppliers Group despite its terrible record on weapons proliferation. Sadly, Schmitt points to a possible answer: �effort to make sure Beijing looks kindly on American bids� on building nuclear power plants in the PRC. Zach Coleman, Asia Times, examines the long history of the Bush family in Communist China (link courtesy Member Dianna Roberts). Longtime diplomat James Lilley details his pro-�engagement� views in China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy, which Stephanie Ho, Voice of America (via Epoch Times, HK), reviews. Jay Nordlinger, National Review Online, notes the five-year jail sentence of Yang Jianli (third item), and laments the fact that the PRC will likely pay no price for it. John Derbyshire, also of NRO, takes note of Beijing�s 1979 decision to loosen economic restrictions while tightening political ones. Stephen Roach, Time Asia, compares the economies of the PRC and the U.S. On Communist China and the Terrorist War Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Dr. Mohan Malik, of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, details Communist China�s ties to Pakistan�s nuclear weapons program, and its blind eye to Abdul Qadeer Khan�s nuclear weapons bazaar, in the Epoch Times. Jean Pearce, Front Page Magazine, provides more detail of how the �Gorelick memo� also blocked probes into PRC espionage (see also 4/28 Update). On Brazil and Communist China Carmen Gentile, United Pres International (via Washington Times), examines Brazil�s growing partnership with Communist China (see also last Update). As the Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Approaches Gao Wenqian remembers the march into Tiananmen Square, and why he decided to join it, in the BBC. John Kusumi of the China Support Network presents his opinion on the state of the movement, 15 years later. For anyone in the Washington DC area, here are the planned events in commemoration of the sacrifice of those who died on June 4, 1989. CSN translated the letter from Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the retired doctor who exposed the spread of SARS last year and has since publicly called the Tiananmen massacre a mistake (see 4/11/03 and 3/19 Week�s Links), and makes a call for the public to co-sign the letter. On the Falun Gong War The Epoch Times comments on the slander against Falun Gong by the Australian newspaper 2ac Chinese Daily, and the lawsuit the movement has filed against the paper. Simon Thomas, Epoch Times, reports on the Pedals for Peace � the children�s bicycle ride in support of Falun Gong victims of persecution � from the road, literally. On the Velvet Crackdown (Hong Kong) An unattributed United Pres International piece (via Beliefnet) details the good cop-bad cop approach Communist China is using to stifle opposition in the city. Lau Wai-Hing, Apple Daily (via Epoch Times), calls for residents of the city to take to the streets on July 1 to protests the Communists denial of democracy there. On Taiwan Ellen Bork, of the Project for the New American Century, notes President Chen Shui-bian�s nod to the U.S. on independence, and calls on the U.S. to accept the fact that the �status quo� is not in Taiwan�s interest. Paul Jackson of the Calgary Sun also weighs in, as does Jay Nordlinger (National Review Online, fourth item), and Andrew Perrin (Time Asia). Jackson has a later column describing how valued freedom has become in Taiwan. On Tibet The China Support Network presents the views of the leaders within the Han Chinese dissident community on the occupied nation. On the Communist Chinese Economy Jim Frederick, Time Asia, has yet another piece on Communist China�s economy that focuses on the chattering classes� favorite issue: will the PRC or will it not have a soft-landing? Francis Markus, BBC, finds Communist China still riddled with poverty, and for many, the situation is getting worse, not better. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? 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