| Link of the Week The editors of the Washington Post rip the North Korean regime for the brutal oppression of its own people. They also blast Communist China for its policy of sending back any North Korean refugee it finds, and lambaste the rest of the world for not paying enough attention to this human rights disaster. The editors also note a possible �hidden agenda� behind the stony silence. �After all,� they say, �a massive exodus from North Korea could destroy its regime, just as a similar refugee exodus once helped destroy East Germany's. And, rhetoric aside, nobody � not South Korea, not China and not the United States � is really prepared for that. Only the North Koreans would benefit.� Zing! More on Communist China and North Korea Ellen Bork, Deputy Director of the Project for the New American Century, has this salient criticism on the Administration�s policies regarding the PRC and North Korea: "U.S. officials should remove North Korea from the list of matters on which China supposedly cooperates and take the opportunity to review the record of 'constructive engagement.'" Meanwhile, Caroline Gluck, BBC, examines the plight of the North Korean refugees in Communist China, trapped away from home with no legal protections, and fully aware that the Communists will send back to the Stalinist North any refugee they can find. Sign up now for the next North Korea Report, sent out every Monday. On Taiwan Arnold Beichman, a Hoover Institution research fellow and Washington Times columnist, admires Taiwan�s transition from dictatorship to democracy, and hopes that the so-called People�s Republic will follow suit. On Communist China's Rival India Larry Pressler, a senator from l979-1997, and former chairman of the South Asia subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says the United States �would be better served if it set India and China side-by-side and gave India, a democracy of a billion people, the edge�, in the Washington Times. Check out the latest on Communist China and the Terrorist War. Miss an Update, Weekly Links, or a North Korea Report? Find it on our web site. Sign the Boycott Petition: In reaction to the decision of the International Olympic Committee awarding Beijing the 2008 Olympic Games, the China e-Lobby has begun a petition for an American boycott of those games. 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. |