| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China October 29, 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. The next Summer Olympics, in 2008, will take place in Beijing. Will the U.S. take part in a Communist Chinese version of the Munich Nazi propaganda event of 1936? Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Link of the Week Wang Yuzhi, Falun Gong practitioner and victim of Communist torture, has put her story and stories of other torture victims into her new book Crossing Over Death. Suman Srinivasan, Epoch Times, spoke to her about her suffering, which included time in a labor camp and a mental hospital. More On the Falun Gong War Evan Mantyk, Epoch Times, reviews the �Uncompromising Courage� art exhibit, the artistic expression of Communist China�s brutal crackdown on Falun Gong. On Communist China and Canada Ted Byfield, Calgary Sun, would like to know why the Canadian government is so determined to let Communist China acquire a major mining company (Noranda) on its way to �take control -- via the purchase method -- of large segments of Canadian resource industries� (see also last Update). The editors of the Toronto Star are also nervous about this buyout. On Communist China and the Presidential Campaign As Newsmax�s Lev Navrozov laments, Communist China is not a major issue in this campaign, but there is some intersection. Tom Donnelly, Daily Standard (the online version of the Weekly Standard), finds that John Kerry�s views on Communist China leave something to be desired, but doesn�t mention that President Bush�s policies � save Taiwan � are almost as bad. Philip Pan, Washington Post, finds a vague preference for President Bush over Senator Kerry from � get this � both Communists and dissidents, albeit for very different reasons. Patrick Goodenough, Cybercast News, finds Taiwan feels more comfortable around Republicans. On Stalinist-controlled northern Korea Sign up for the next Northern Korea Report (out on Monday). Former New York Times reporter Richard Halloran�s Washington Times column on SCNK�s nuclear ambitions ends with this disastrous line: �China shares the U.S., South Korean and Japanese aversion to seeing terrorists allied with pirates in the South China Sea to endanger their oil lifeline from the Middle East or shipping lanes to export markets everywhere.� Ugh! More On Communist China and the United States Matthew Forney, Time Asia, finds relations between the U.S. and the People�s Republic to be very good, but refuses to examine the pitfalls of such coziness. Dr. Eric Teo, of the Singapore Institute for International Affairs (via Epoch Times), gives a much more sober view of potential problems between Communist China and the U.S. in the future. A worldwide structure of textile trade restrictions ends on December 31. Aravind Adiga, Time Asia, examines the effect in a number of �third world� nations seeing their markets, especially in the U.S., vanishing due to the PRC�s depressed labor rates and currency devaluation. Neil Gough, also in Time Asia, looks at the effect in Communist China itself. John Tkacik, of the Heritage Foundation, blasts Powell�s strange comments on Taiwan (see last Update), in National Review Online. It should be noted that Powell has since abandoned his own words on the subject. More on Taiwan Louisa Lim, BBC, analyzes the current state of the argument on President Chen Shui-bian�s push for the purchase of American arms. On Jacques Chirac The President of France earns more criticism for his fawning of the PRC in the Epoch Times. On Hu Jintao The editors of the Epoch Times find that Communist leader Hu Jintao is already disappointing those who held him high as a �reformer� of the PRC. As more details are found, they will be linked via the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Miss an Update, Week's Links, or Northern 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. |