| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China August 29, 2003 Links of the Week Gary Schmitt, executive director of the Project for the New American Century, reviews two books at once � The New Chinese Empire And What It Means for the United States, by Ross Terrill, and China's New Rulers, The Secret Files, by Andrew J. Nathan and Bruce Gilley � plus two reports on the PRC � one by the Pentagon, the other by the Council on Foreign Relations. In his Weekly Standard review, Schmitt makes these critical points: Communist China is a major, hostile, anti-American power; its actions over recent years to gain the upper hand against Taiwan are serious; and the U.S. should treat the regime for the threat it really is. More on Human Rights in Communist China Steven Mosher, President of Population Research Institute, also reviews Ross Terrill�s The New Chinese Empire � and judging by the reviews, it�s quite a good book � in the Washington Times. Meanwhile, Herman Goodden, London Free Press (Cdn.) rips Communist China�s hideous �one child� policy. On North Korea Before this week�s nuclear talks, Stanley Kurtz, National Review Online, expressed skepticism on the prospects fo success. He went further to say that the only real options are a PRC-aided regime change and war � and he put the possibility of the former at near zero unless the Communists �are convinced that America will otherwise go to war with North Korea.� Louisa Lim, BBC, give Communist China a little too much credit in analyzing why it coaxed the North to the talks, and why it does not wish to see any action taken against its Stalinist ally. Due to the Labor Day weekend, the next North Korea Report will be out on Tuesday, September 3. If you haven�t signed up for it already, just drop a line. On Hong Kong Hebert London, president of the Hudson Institute, sees Communist China at a crossroads unlike any since the Tiananmen Square massacre as it faces the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. The only deficiency in his Washington Times piece is his recommendation for U.S. policy: �We should stand on the sidelines and cheer.� Why can�t we get off the sidelines? On Communist China and Trade The Communist China Daily, cited by the Washington Times (last item), tells the U.S. that the PRC�s surge in exports to America � and damage done to the U.S. in the process � �is simply part of the larger restructuring phenomenon.� It neglected the mention the deliberate low-value peg on the Communist currency that has heavily skewed international prices. William R. Hawkins, of the U.S. Business and Industry Council, gives the Communists, and everyone else, a well needed reminder of what the PRC�s currency manipulation is doing to the U.S., economy, in the National Review Online. Daniel T. Griswold, of the CATO Institute, takes the pro-trade view (Part 1 and 2), but in his National Review Online/Pfizer piece he dismisses national security concerns and assumes trade will soften the Communist leadership and bring democracy to the PRC despite 20 years of evidence to the contrary, most dramatically symbolized by the Tiananmen Square massacre. More on Communist China and the United States Lev Navrozov, Newsmax, writes against about nanotechnology, and Communist China�s willingness to weaponize it against the U.S. Check out this story and more on 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. |