| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China January 30, 2004 Listen to the Chinascope, hosted by D.J. McGuire: Tuesday, midnight EST, on WXEI 95.3 FM in Crestview, FL, or here. 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 The China Support Network (a recent addition to the Other Sites of Interest Page) � headed by John Kusumi (Member since 2003) � blasts France for its feting of Communist Chinese President Hu Jintao, its verbal slap at Taiwan, and its manhandling of Falun Gong practitioners (remember �yellow is illegal� from the last Update?). This is a terrific piece. More On France and Communist China Charles R. Smith, Newsmax, takes note of France�s efforts to get the EU � and itself � back into the business of selling arms to Communist China. Bernardo Cervellera, Asia News, interviews exiled Chinese labor activist Cai Chongguo to get his opinion on Hu�s trip to France. Randall Parker, founder of Parapundit (and Member since 2003) also weighs in. On the State of Workers in the Workers� State The editors of the Epoch Times (HK) detail the tragic plight of migrant workers from Communist China�s rural interior, which includes Communist-run or �joint venture� employers refusing to pay the wages promised, often with no consequence. More on Human Rights in Communist China Zhang Jinhua, Epoch Times, reviews Zeng Zheng�s Still Water Runs Deep, the harrowing narrative of a Falun Gong practitioner suffering in a Communist Chinese labor camp. Zi Jun, Epoch Times, has another account of PRC persecution of Falun Gong, which in this case is so severe the watermelon seeds picked by the labor camp inmates are now blood-stained. Arnold Beichman, Washington Times, details Communist China�s persecution of religion, and the motivation behind it: �the PRC is welded to Leninism.� The editors of the Epoch Times look back at journalism in Communist China in 2003: called the �Year of Beating Chinese Journalists.� Journalism is now �the third most dangerous occupation in the country.� The brave souls who suffer in Communist jail cells for their desire for freedom are not alone in their travails. Jin Yanming, wife of jailed dissident Liu Jingsheng, writes in the New Century (via Epoch Times) about how her husband�s imprisonment has affected her family. Tim Luard, BBC, details how Communist China is battling to control the internet, and how dissidents throughout the PRC fight the regime in cyberspace. On Education in Communist China Education is not only available for all American kids; it�s mandatory. Thus, one would expect a Communist state to at least make sure it could match that. As noted by Radio Free Asia (via Epoch Times), one would be wrong. On Communist China and the United States Lev Navrozov, Newsmax, has yet another great column on nanotechnology, the PRC, and the United States. David Ignatius, Washington Post, discusses the �inexorable rise of China as a global economic superpower,� but does not discuss the national security implications of this. Robert Samuelson, also in the Post, raises the same subject, and makes the same mistake. On SARS Lin Baohua, Radio Free Asia (via Epoch Times) sees the return of SARS in Communist China, and is very, very afraid. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. 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. |