| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China December 30, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available here (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 For the second straight week, someone managed to outperform the Epoch Times' Nine Commentaries. This week, it was Congressman Bernie Sanders (Socialist-Vermont), whose broadside against corporations investing in and propping up Communist China was good enough for the Washington Times, and for our top prize. The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party The Epoch Times finished the English translation: Part VIII and Part IX. For Parts I through VII, see the 12/3, 12/10, 12/17, and last Week�s Links). Stephen Gregory, the Epoch Times English-language editor (full disclosure, this is the fellow who approved the publications of columns in his paper by yours truly), commented on the Commentaries� effect. Also speaking at the aforementioned conference (speeches reprinted by the Epoch Times) were Michael Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute, and William J. Murray, chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition. On the Falun Gong War Leeshai Lemish, Epoch Times, talks to Yeong-Ching Foo, fianc� of American citizen, Falun Gong practitioner, and People�s Republic prisoner Charles Lee. More on Human Rights in Communist China John Kusumi, China Support Network (CSN), offers his thoughts on the month that was in the PRC. Tracey Zhu, Epoch Times, hears from two former PRC �reporters�-turned-dissidents, Guoguang Wu and Qinglian He, about how the regime keeps a tight lid on its media. Parapundit founder Randall Parker (member since 2003) weighs in on the trial of the authors of An Investigation of China's Peasantry (see last Update). More on Communist China and the United States John Derbyshire, National Review Online (and member since 2002) demands to know: �why the Chinese bullying of Taiwan doesn�t generate more protests from that �international community� we hear so much about� (third item). He is particularly upset at the United States: �Where is all our bluster about �spreading democracy� when it comes to East Asia?� Tom Donnelly, Daily Standard, would also like to know where the Bush Administration is going, regarding the PRC: �If the Bush administration is serious about preserving American hegemony, it needs to devote greater attention in its second term to balancing against China's rise in Asia, rather than simply appeasing it.� Frank Gaffney, Jr. � head of the Center for Security Policy and frequent Washington Times columnist � focuses on the push in the European Union to reopen the arms bazaar with Communist China, and how the proposed European Constitution could make keeping the embargo much more difficult, if not impossible. The editors of the Washington Post praise the Bush Administration�s apparent renewed interest in the plight of Darfur, and takes note of the lead obstacles to any progress against Sudan�s war on the people there: Communist China and Russia. Curry Kenworthy, current head of CSN, talks to the Epoch Times about the American enablers of Communist China. On Communist China�s War Against Nature Chu Tian Yi Niao, Epoch Times, reveals the true cause of the Yangtze River/Paizhou Bay flood of 1998, which killed 12,000: �Jiang Zemin�s ignorance of science and nature.� Meanwhile, Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post, examines the effect of Communist China�s addiction to hydroelectric dams on the Mekong River. The Weakest Link This is a new feature, which will highlight the most Pollyannish, foolhardy, or otherwise worng-headed �analysis� of Communist China. This week�s �prize� goes to Eric Baculinao, MSNBC, whose column on the PRC�s growing economic clout includes absolutely nothing on the national security implications of the rising, hostile, anti-American dictatorship. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the next Northern Korea Report (out on Monday). 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. |