| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China April 30, 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. Link of the Week Jerome A. Cohen, a law professor at New York University, and Jared Genser, from Freedom Now, demand justice and freedom for jailed dissident and American resident Yang Jianli, in the Washington Post. On Communist China and the United States Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The editors of the Washington Post lament the lack of democracy in Hong Kong, and give the Bush Administration a well-deserved slap for �support for Hong Kong's democracy (that) is no more than rhetorical.� Amid reports that the �Gorelick memo� stymied investigations into PRC espionage, Scott Jordan, in Cybercast News, wonders if that was the whole point. More on Human Rights in Communist China The China Support Network adds its voice to Yang�s supporters. Zeng Renquan, in the Epoch Times (HK), blasts the members of the United Nations Human Rights Commission that voted against an anti-PRC resolution by the U.S. Zeng also blames the vote on Communist China�s ��economic aid,� which is nothing but vote buying�. On the Falun Gong War Leeshai Lemish, in the Epoch Times, recaps the history of the Communist persecution against Falun Gong as the anniversary of the April 25, 1999 demonstration by practitioners demanding fair treatment was observed. Genevieve Long and Suman Srinivasan, in the Epoch Times, wonder when the world will take action against the Communist persecution of Falun Gong. John Derbyshire, National Review columnist and Member since 2002, reviews Falun Gong: The End of Days, and finds the persecution against it endemic of a Communist regime desperate to survive �widespread spiritual discontent so characteristic, to a Chinese observer, of an imperial dynasty on the way out.� As the Tiananmen Square Anniversary Approaches The China Support Network reviews event from fifteen years ago, including a hard-line editorial from the Communist People�s Daily that incensed the Chinese people, and brought even more into Tiananmen Square. On SARS Susan Jakes, Time Asia, notes the return of SARS in Communist China. On the Communist Chinese Economy Jiang He, Voice of America via the Epoch Times, examines what, if any, effect the �growth of the middle class� will have on the prospects for democracy in China � don�t get your hopes up. Melinda Liu, Newsweek, details Communist China�s continuing thirst for oil. Randall Parker, founder of Parapundit (and member since 2002) also weighs in on the oil issue. Radio Free Asia, via the Epoch Times, notes how counterfeiting in the PRC, often with the help of local cadres, is scaring away investors. On Taiwan Paul Jackson, Calgary Sun, rips Communist China for using its muscle to keep Taiwan out of the World Health Organization. On Tibet Bob MacDonald, Member since 2003 and Toronto Sun columnist, rips Communist China�s vicious occupation of Tibet, and the silence of the rest of the world. Marianne Meed Ward, also in the Toronto Sun, praises the Dalai Lama (who is visiting Canada this week). Salim Mansur does the same in the London (Ontario) Free Press. On Hong Kong Chris Hogg, BBC, gauges the angry reaction to the PRC�s refusal to let the people choose the city�s Chief Executive, and notes how it could continue to build, unwittingly, anti-Communism on Taiwan. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. 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. |