| The next Update will go out one day early, on Tuesday, June 4, in honor of the thousands who died in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. Link of the Week As India and Pakistan trade words and gunfire over terrorist attacks in the Indian-controlled section of Kashmir, Nick Easen, CNN, gives a brief history of Communist China�s role in Kashmir, including the land it seized from India in 1962. On Other International Issues Clay Chandler examines Communist China�s growing export sector, and what it could mean to its neighbors and the rest of the world, in the Washington Post. On the Disastrous �One Child� Policy Hannah Beech, in Time Asia, examines the beginning of a major population crisis in rural Communist China � a tremendous shortage of young women � and its damaging effects on life and love in the PRC. Beech puts the number of �missing� girls and women, victims of the Communists� hideous �one child� policy, at 50 million. Sign up for the North Korea Report; the next issue comes out on Monday. There�s still time to contact the President and tell him not to appoint pro-PRC Doug Paal as de facto ambassador to Taiwan. Check out the latest on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. 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 you happen to find to the same address. |