| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. The Week�s Links: Feature and Opinion Pieces on Communist China July 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 John Kusumi, Executive Director of the China Support Network (and member since 2003), takes the prize with a powerful speech calling on President Bush and Senator Kerry to �take their feet off the desk where it comes to Communist China� (emphasis in original). More on Communist China and the United States Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. CSN rails against �the lack of response by the U.S. White House, and the lack of interest on the part of America's media� to the People�s Republic�s horrific treatment of its own people and its growing hostility to U.S. interests abroad. Kusumi also takes aim at the Democrats, whose convention just finished, for their weakness on the PRC � although he didn�t spare the GOP. Liu Huijuan, Epoch Times, gives a quick history of the PRC�s relationship with the U.S., and it isn�t pretty. James T. Hackett, Washington Times, praises President Bush�s partial deployment of a missile defense, noting it will �reduce Beijing's ability to adversely influence U.S. policy.� On Taiwan M.D. Nalapat, director of the School of Geopolitics of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education in India, foresees a Communist invasion of Taiwan in the near future in Insight (link courtesy the aforementioned John Kusumi). Caroline Gluck, BBC, examines �Chinese brides� � mainland women who marry Taiwanese men � and the suspicion that surrounds them. Ohio Congressmen Sherrod Brown (D) and Steve Chabot (R) bid a fond farewell to Taiwanese de facto Ambassador C.J. Chen, in the Washington Times. Mac William Bishop, Asia Times (via Epoch Times), examines the effects of American, Taiwanese, and Communist military exercises in the region. On East Turkestan Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. N. T. Tarimi, Asia Times (via Epoch Times), reviews the persecution of anti-Communist Uighurs in Uzbekistan, and sees things getting worse. On the State of the Workers in the Workers� State Hannah Beech, in Time Asia, interviews the family of Zhang Jian, a victim of the yawning gap between Communist propaganda and Communist reality in Daqing, home to the labor protests of 2002 (see 3/29/02 Week�s Links). Louisa Lim, BBC, sees another gap between propaganda and reality in Communist China. In this case, it is the harsh truth for those brave enough to come to Beijing to petition the regime on a local grievance. The most likely results are �beatings, forcible removals and petitioners being sent back to their home provinces,� or simple, but total, indifference. Further in that vein, Tian Xi (Sound of Hope Radio via Epoch Times) talks to a woman whose home was demolished by the Communists while she was at work. The suffering of her family from it, and her fight for just compensation, is almost too painful to read. On the Good Doctor Jonathon Watts, in The Guardian (UK), has a twisted take on the plight of Dr. Jiang Yanyong. To be frank, Watts� idea that the good doctor is being used by Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao is a bit rich, and blaming �international financial institutions and investors� for the horrors of Central Military Commission Chairman Jiang Zemin is laughable (link courtesy Kusumi). On the Falun Gong War Falun Dafa Information Center (via Epoch Times) marks the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Communist crackdown with a message of hope. Ma Youzhi, Epoch Times, talks to Zhou Fengsuo, a leader in the Tiananmen Square protests. Zhou puts the David Liang shooting (see 7/9, 7/16, and last Week�s Links) into the bloody historical context of Communist persecution. More on Human Rights in Communist China CSN welcomes the news that dissident Yuan Hongbing has escaped to Australia, and updates the situation for three other prominent Chinese dissidents. On North Korean Refugees in Communist China Sign up for the North Korea Report to get the next edition on Monday. Sarah Buckley, BBC, highlights the anguish and terror refugees from North Korea go through to escape the PRC � where they face the threat of constant repatriation � and reach freedom. On the Ecology in Communist China Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC, laments the Communist rampant over-development that has made the Yellow River run dry nearly seven months out of the year: �In 50 years the communists have done more to destroy the river than their predecessors in the last 5,000.� On Communist China and Japan Kosuke Takahashi, Asia Times (via Epoch Times), examines the rising tension over the disputed Senkaku island chain. Meanwhile, Asahi Shimbun (via Washington Times, third item) calls on Prime Minister Koizumi to take a softer line with the PRC, a prospect that deeply worriers John Derbyshire of National Review Online (Member since 2002 � see second item). 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. 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