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The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) is startlingly good at information control, especially in shaping the perceptions of Chinese people. They're subtle and wiley. I have many [immediate] family members who are Chinese, some of whom went through the horrific "Great Leap Forward". The story they tell is quite different from the history taught to the last two generations.

Check out the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party http://www.ninecommentaries.com/ (link to free online version), and then see how much of what Xinhua says you're willing to take at face value. Sadly China's last two generations often lack the history to recognize how much the CCP affects their opinions.

"Corruption will cause the top of China's "Communist" party to lose power and money" No. Only the lose of power by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will fully expose how corrupt it is. The Hope Project, the most important charity organization in China, which is closely associated with the current CCP leader Hu Jintao, misused significant amount of its funds. Jiang Mianhen, the son of the former CCP leader Jiang Zemin, founded billon dollar chip manufacturing empire by acquiring its major company previously owned by the government at less than 1% of its value and many more subsequent stunts. You now see the government acknowledges that the entire leadership of Shanghai City was corrupt to its core including the now jailed former CCP secretary Chen Liangyu (this was disclosed after their bosses Jiang Zemin gradually lost power of course). The 150 billion dollar corruption case of Zhou Zhenyi is still stalled for years because the CCP official behind it, Jiang Zemin is not completely out of power yet. Due to the high concentration of money within CCP, corruptions that can sentence western officials to millions of years can be well kept for as long as needed. In fact, CCP leaders need corruption to attract their gangs, eh, their comrades, to work for them to keep power over the people. Only those who lost power or those whose boss lost power in the intense internal CCP power war will be kicked down by disclosing their corruption. To fully understand what CCP is, read the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party at http://ninecommentaries.com/

The CCP uses both soft and hard methods concurrently. Sometimes they would be relaxed in some instances while strict in others, or they would be relaxed on the outside while stiff in their internal affairs. In a relaxed atmosphere, the CCP encouraged the expression of different opinions, but, as if luring the snake out of its hole, those who did speak up would only be persecuted in the following period of strict control.

There's a study from the universities of Harvard, Toronto, and Cambridge that gives some insight into which topics the legions of censors put the most energy into blocking.

Biggest surprises:

• Only 18% of Chinese-language search results for "democracy" were blocked, while 90% of results about the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party were blocked.
• Various proxy sites were generally not blocked.

Biggest lack of surprise: Sites related to the Tiananmen massacre and Falun Gong were thoroughly blocked.

This gives a sense of what the regime there is most afraid of people reading.

I suggest that Chinese readers find a proxy and read up on exactly these topics.

It's worse than that, it's "I've got mine, therefore I'm better than you. Greed is good, selfishness is next to Godliness. So fuck you."

That's what happens when your society is stripped from religious freedom. You see, in China, the government *is* God. Nothing is higher then it (Government). As such, with most if not all forms of hubris, you end up with a society that is devoid of moral guidence and ripe of selfishness.

To get a more indepth explination, please read Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.

I love how everyone is "shocked" and "appalled."

Originially published in Chinese, read http://ninecommentaries.com/

Ya, that's right. FIGHT THE POWER!!! Ra ra ra!

Mean while, most people FAIL to understand how communism fucked up China. The say people support communism is the day humanity takes another step back progression of the human spirit and all its endeavors. Talk about cutting off your face to spite your nose...

May I refer you to reading the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.

...is that not many people are exposed to the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. Given The Little Red Book is the second-most published book in the world, then it's humanities duty to ensure Nine Commentaries is the first.

Supporting occupied peoples in regaining their freedom is clearly a hindrance to trade when politicians and their corporate cronies have manufacturing bases to export and bucks to be made. It is interesting how the empires of Mao and Lenin, both of whom remain on display full of preservatives, have turned to imperialist fascism (made infamous by their past opponents Japan and Germany respectively, although e.g. the British Empire certainly had such tendencies as well) in order to "earn their rehabilitation" in the eyes of the West.

Western leaders are full of love and affection for dictators like Putin and Hu Jintao (aka the Butcher of Tibet after his brutal crackdown on Tibetans during his reign as the supreme chinese party chief in occupied Tibet) while the non-expansionist socialist dictators of smaller countries, like Cuba's Castro and Zimbabwe's Mugabe, are still being treated like pariahs.

If the western democracies actually asked their electorate which is worse, a small non-expansionist socialist state like Cuba or a genocidally expansionist one-party dictatorship like China, would the western leaders have to act surprised by the answer?

On How the Communist Party Is an Anti-Universe Force
In the last hundred years, the sudden invasion by the communist specter has created a force against nature and humanity, causing limitless agony and tragedy. It has also pushed civilization to the brink of destruction. It has become an extremely malevolent force against the universe.

Even if the value of the US currency would go down, it'd just make it more attractive for the Chinese to buy up US-based assets considered strategic to their objectives. Unlike the cash-rich Japanese in the 80's, the Chinese wouldn't care much about the largely symbolic real estate but would go for targets which would allow them to gain control of the US economy and production.

All in all, it's strange how the ruling classes of America (large corporations and their political friends) seem to doing everything in their considerable power to help an expansionist and aggressive dictatorship to grow into an uncontrollable behemoth. Tibetans, Uighurs and ("Inner", huh) Mongolians are left to their own devices to cope with the sinister sinization of their lands while the Taiwanese live under the constant fear of invasion by the CCP's military arm, the euphemistically titled "People's Liberation Army".

Bush, Blair & Co tout their invasion and occupation of Iraq as a "moral duty" while they're bending over backwards to roll out the red carpet to China's totalitarian rulers. Blair, who refused to even meet the exiled leader of the Tibetans last year will be kissing Chairman Hu's butt next week, hell-bent on resuming the sale of military technology to the aggressive dictatorship! They're trying hard to reach Putinist Russia's high moral standards apparently.

How is this all related to PRC's ambitious space program? Well, were we rejoicing when monsieurs Hitler and Stalin made progress on their respective paramilitary programs while building up ultranationalist fervour among their under-critical populations?

If this was about a peaceful and democratic China which wasn't committing genocide against its defenseless neighbours or oppressing its own people over "thought crimes" I'd be happy as a clam. I know there are good people in China; I've met such people myself. But too many, especially of those with knowledge of english and access to the 'net, are ultranationalistic stooges supporting their unelected regime with total disregard to the crimes they've committed.

... that Google doesn't voluntarily identify users who do this, like Yahoo did.

Unfortunately, many high-tech companies are all to eager to do business with a regime that has killed 80 million people. Western companies' equipment, software, and expertise are what allow China's 30,000+ full-time internet censors to block this kind of breakthrough soon after they're discovered. They couldn't have built such a system without our help.

This is a good article, but it misses a key point: Yahoo's Hong Kong branch is actually under no obligation whatsoever to obey mainland China's law. Yahoo either (a) cooperated with a reasonable expectation of what would happen, or (b) was, unfortunately, naive.

Even if there were no jurisdiction issue, when the "law" is used as a tool to persecute people, it is not legitimate and should not be followed. Western companies may do well to think twice before doing business with a regime that has killed nearly 100 million of its own people.