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Cheating:

- Governmental currency manipulation which is pretty much a certainty.

- "Product Dumping", e.g. selling a product at below production cost (either by simply eating the loss or cutting corners and dumping an inferior, unsafe product) so as to drive competitors out of the market and then price-gouge once you're the only supplier (already seen in some markets where China did, in fact, run US companies out of business)

- Rampant theft of intellectual property - we're not just talking Napster-grade "file sharing" here, we are talking about rampant spying and thievery of patented products and designs. As the last article I link shows, it's not just the US getting burned by the Chinese - this is a major point of concern in the EU as well.

Are you getting some form of a clue now?

Unless we've got resources that are rare. Water, say. Or Iron. Or, it turns out, O2.

I recommend the Lensman books. Demand for Earth's unique resources is a plot point.

Active broadcasting a signal takes a lot of power. A typical mobile phone can last maybe 10-12 hours on a charge, when talking. Up to two weeks standby. For these devices well let's be generous, make it double the time, that's 24 hours of broadcasting signals. The rest of the year: no battery. And I didn't see a battery on the photos.

What have you been smoking? There is only one photo in TFA linked article. Look again - see the blue shrink wrapped batteries? Still no? How about now?

The device will not fit in your shirt pocket - it's a little larger than an iPhone (I and other posters have seen these devices). As for your proof - again, what the fuck have you been smoking? A phone and this device have little in common when it comes to power consumption (see if you can work out why). Hint - I can buy devices on the open market that will transmit an audio signal for more 12 months - and they will fit in my pocket. No nuclear power pack involved. Don't go basing you idea of surveillance technology on what the FBI leaves attached to the bottom of Arab students cars - you can bet the Chinese have access to far more sophisticated devices than I can buy.

The rest of your screed is pure castles in the air - try getting off the sofa and visiting the world. China == Hong Kong - lip-service is the only difference between one side of the border and the other. The speculated range of the devices is just that. Speculated. As for signal interception - really, are you fucking serious? Do you hear mobile telephone calls on your transistor? (and that's a GHz crystal in the photo you can't see - just under the battery pack that doesn't exist).

Consider it - every insightful argument you've come up with is wrong - you can't see the obvious, and you can't even count up to two properly. And no, advertisements don't count as pictures. But hey - don't let your ignorance to stop from being an expert in Chinese spying devices, it never stopped you from making laughably clueless statements about the nature of emails or programming.

A dollar gets me ten you've got some weasely denial.

Unfortunate coincidence - just as the source code is leaked, Sony executive talks to BBC about lessons learnt from the network hacks and compromised user account information:'Making sure that (you know) once you have a secure network, then people that are out to get the information will try to out do the security mechanisms that we have put in place. Even today, we don't know what was actually stolen, because we are still doing the investigations.'

Maybe Sony should look at the bright side; much of the investigation has been done by the hackers themselves who are not shy about sharing what they have stolen.

On a side-note, I wonder how Robert is doing as the LulzSec claims arrested hacker is not part of the group, just some guy.

Erm, apparently there was physical trauma (see here and here). They're still guessing, but leaning towards stress from fireworks, although lightening or hail haven't been ruled out.

This is far from the first time anything like this has been recorded.

Really?

There's a big difference between transparency of spending and bills and leaking state secrets.

No...not ALL things should be made public. There are some things than need to be kept secret in order not to lose lives, either on the battlefield or civilians.

Some of you seriously need to go back and study the history of WWII.

Even Reporters without Borders condemned Assange after his August release:

RSF acknowledged that Wikileaks “has in the past played a useful role” by exposing violations of human rights and civil liberties. “But revealing the identity of hundreds of people who collaborated with the coalition in Afghanistan is highly dangerous. It would not be hard for the Taliban and other armed groups to use these documents to draw up a list of people for targeting in deadly revenge attacks,” says the letter.

Even Reporters without Borders condemned Assange's "incredible irresponsibility" for putting lives in danger through his previous release.

Reporters (at least in the US) enjoy a certain protection for the release of information. Not just protection their sources but the information they leak. But Assange is blurring the line between leaker (not protected) vs. publisher (protected).

Assange "has gone a long way down the road of talking himself into a possible violation of the Espionage Act," First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams said on National Public Radio, noting that Assange has said leaks could bring down a U.S. administration.

Washington lawyer Bob Bittman expressed surprise the Justice Department has not already charged Assange under the Espionage Act and with theft of government property over his earlier release of classified documents about U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bittman said it was widely believed those disclosures harmed U.S. national security, in particular U.S. intelligence sources and methods, meeting the requirement in several sections of the act that there be either intent or reason to believe disclosure could injure the United States.

Even Reporters without Borders condemned Assange's "incredible irresponsibility" for putting lives in danger through his previous release last August.

Ok asshole, your rebutal.

We wanted the population to be free, not repressed.

They still arn't free, and they still are repressed.
Repression and Violence Against Journalists in China on Increase
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/42042/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/movies/01spring.html

CENSORSHIP has long been a fact of life for filmmakers in China, but in recent years no director has clashed with the Chinese authorities as often, or as visibly, as Lou Ye. At two of the last five editions of the Cannes Film Festival, with the global media spotlight trained on the south of France, Mr. Lou, 45, has walked up the red carpet to present a movie that was being screened, in competition, without the permission of the Film Bureau in Beijing.

Every one of those were easily found by doing a google search.

Now along with having the largest population in the world still not being free, they are all becoming sick from all the polution from their industrialization.

China's 'cancer villages' reveal dark side of economic boom
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/07/china-cancer-villages-industrial-pollution

Would you like to try again with your comment about westerners and china.

Taking the absolute numbers really gives us ground for comparison. With a population of nearly 9 million, Rwanda is slightly more populous than New York, the largest city in the US. From the fine article, Rwanda is building to a total generation capacity of 150MW. The city of New York is one of the most energy efficient in the US, probably due to climate and housing density.

Even so, when the air conditioners kick in during the summer they can use 6.9 million megawatt hours in a single month.

Nice try, but I'm not falling for it. You say the EPA gives out waivers all the time? In this case? In a day? You mention the "whale" which is a brand-new ship for skimming oil - never been tested until now. I'm glad they got a shot (after a couple of months of using dispersants). What about all of the TESTED methods that weren't given a chance, even though they were sitting there ready to go months ago? Try this for an example: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/38810/

Yep, I'll keep railing against the EPA, and BP, and cheering on those who try to help.

This, coupled with strikes by workers at Honda's plant in China, makes me wonder if the endless supply of expendable labor in China may be starting to be exhausted. It would be great if the race to the bottom (and subsequent wage increases for labor, I hope) occurred during my lifetime.

"But the thing about America is that we FIX problems when we realize that we made a mistake."

Go on. Say that with a straight face.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/4-11-3/24168.html

Yep, it was more of a people just didn't care about the environment and didn't realize the implications on humans/animals by dumping these chemicals.

Same thing happened in my town for the Saturn V rockets while at the development facilities in Huntington Beach, CA and Seal Beach, CA they had huge bins of DDT and Boric Acid that they would continuously overfill all the time. Well the spillover of the acid would just splash out the top and onto the exposed dirt ground, this was all done with residents fairly close and one of the biggest last remaining wetlands in California.

It was real nice for Boeing's profits and the war cause, but at risk of cutting corners. So now they have to spend several million dollar EPA project of slowly extracting the chemicals out of the ground and this happened all right next to Pacific Coast Highway.

Here it is and it was $50 million dollars so far.

$50 Million to Clean Up DDT Off Southern California Coast
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/23429/

Money for Class Presence in French Schools

1. Accept that China is in control, which will lead to China invading a number of nations.
2. Go to war with China (which oddly, China is gearing up very quickly for that; their approach is not defensive, but offensive).
3. Find more of each of the various elements on this planet.
4. Look for sats with it, mine it and bring it here.

Personally, I want to see us looking amongst the solar system now for these elements. They are out there. More importantly, we CAN find it. I also suspect that we can find more of these around the earth, but they WILL be limited.

The filter, called Green Dam Youth Escort

Filters are censorship. But, if implemented correctly, they're one of the most innocuous forms of censorship. I was initially lead to believe that Green Dam Youth Escort was community driven:

In 2008, under instructions from political leaders, the MIIT implemented a "community-oriented green open Internet filtering software project" with the support of the Central Civilisation Office and the Ministry of Finance. Its aim was to build a "green, healthy network environment, to protect the healthy growth of young people".

Trials commenced in Zhengzhou, Nanjing, Lanzhou, and Xi'an in October 2008 after the ministry negotiated with the software suppliers and 50 web portals to make the software publicly available without charge, and more than 2,000 installations took place. Trials rolled out to 10 more cities, including Chengdu, Shenyang, Harbin, and Qingdao. The ministry claimed that by December 2008, the software had been downloaded more than 100,000 times, and 3 million times since the end of March 2009. Five leading PC vendors in mainland China, Founder, Lenovo, Tongfang, Great Wall and HEDY, also participated in trial installations.

Ok, no biggie. We've got Spamhaus, right? That's a community censorship project against something we don't want--spam! And I love it. But Green Dam Youth Escort seems to be passing the boundaries of what a "filter" does:

According to the Epoch Times, hackers in China had accessed the keyword library and administrative codes, revealing only 2,700 keywords relating to pornography, and over 6,500 politically sensitive keywords which included '4 June', 'Tibet' and 'Falun Gong'. Chinese users of the software have apparently found that it injects a DLL file into Internet Explorer that prohibits the usage of FreeGate, one of the programs commonly used to bypass the Golden Shield Project.

Alright, swapping out a dynamically linked library is transcending a "filter" ... or any label we've invented so far. I must have missed the reports on that but that's pretty shocking to me. If I had to dub this anything it'd be 1984ware.

The Chinese communist party has gone to every length to make the western world consider Falun Gong as strange/dangerous. Is it working? China has a very long history of spiritual teachings from the Buddhist school, and Falun Gong has adhered to non violence in the face of torture/killing for 10 years. I, for one, am ready to support human rights and freedom of belief for anyone who's not harming other people in the process, and Falun Gong has been exemplary in this regard. Look it up.

As long as people are publishing stuff like this, being paranoid isn't a bad thing.

1. Filter them.
2. Troll them.
3. Jail them.
4. ????
5. Send me the Profit

You are at step 2. Steps 3 and 5 are ongoing and it's not really funny when those in jail might be executed for their organs. Yes, Microsoft is still "committed" to business in China.

Trade with Communits Countries like China endorses crimes against humanity and makes the criminals stronger and richer.

In other news today, several socialist countries have launched The Pro-P2P International Socialist Society (PISS).

This international version of 'everybody but the MPAA' is opening new cases against people & their sites that are allegedly attempting to sell digital copies of music that they themselves did not write or perform. The chair and spokesman of PISS, Mr. Blackbeard, said, "Aye, PISS is pissed. Digital music should be provided on the cheap--a utility the likes of water or that magic electricity ... Yarrr. Perhaps ye government could subsidize ye artists and let the people get jigs & tunes for free?"

These lawsuits will affect a wide-variety of people: a programmer who coded a few lines of the Windows DRM algorithm, while Steve Jobs is facing seven life sentences in the gulags and is considered to be armed and advertising.

Free speech go to hell. Why don't you get it?

My favorite painting of mohammed is by Salvador Dalí

This Bakker fellow is certainly going for the No-Prize. In the 24 July issue of The Epoch Times he is quoted as saying "Gaming is the greatest danger to young people that has ever come along." Oh really? Greater than, say, gang- and drug-related violence? Greater than their school system's suspect capability of preparing them for the world?
And if that wasn't enough, later in the article he is said to call gaming addiction "the terrorist inside". Now that's just going for the buzzword-du-jour.

So exactly where has China innovated?

Automobiles they have "chery" whose entire line-up are shoddy copies of cars already produced by other manufacturers.

We have Huawei, who has literally stolen Cisco's router code to make a "competing product".

And then we have their military who happened to... yes steal their designs as well (at least the stuff they didn't just purchase from Russia and reverse engineer).

So exactly what are these innovations taking place in China you wanted to defend?

BTW, there's PLENTY more examples to prove how they don't innovate at all, just steal/reverse engineer/copy others if you need them.

From TFA:

Sky TV aired a report last week that confirms important claims The Epoch Times has made in its own investigations into organ harvesting in China.

This report verifies that:

* organs for transplantation are very plentiful in China;

* they are available on demand;

* the organs are supplied from prisoners;

* the prisoners are killed after they are found to match a patient who is awaiting a donor organ.

Reporter Dominic Waghorn and at least one other staff member from Sky TV visited the Orient Organ Transplantation Center in Beijing with a hidden camera, posing as someone whose father needed a liver.

jollyroger1210 (jollyroger1210@gmail.com) said:

Dexy and the Midnight Runners "Come on Eileen" Do a search on Youtube, there are tons of remakes....

i know, offtopic sort of

On the contrary. Your post is right on topic. Except instead of giving life to old 80's tunes, remakes and punk covers are torturing and killing the music in a way that would make the baby-eating Chinese government ask the U.N. to intervene.

Someone has to do something to stop punk bands from covering 80's music. The sheer lack of originality does not compensate for the shitty instrumentals or the chalkboard-screeching vocals. I mean, holy fucking shit.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-3-21/39544.htm l

Do any of the yahoo! people know about things like this: http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-3-17/39369.htm l ? Maybe they would think differently then.

this.

If the past 100 years is the warmest century for at least 12 centuries, and 2005 was the warmest year in over a century (with the next 4 runners up all occuring in the last 10 years), I don't like where our climate is headed (regardless of whose fault it is or isn't that it's heading there). :-(

Yahoo insists that it does this only when "legally compelled" to do so. With Shi Tao, though—and perhaps with Li Zhi as well—the request from mainland China simply held no weight in Hong Kong, which is where Yahoo was registered.

Yahoo was asked directly which specific law they were following. They didn't answer.

The purpose of the law is to uphold justice, but some "laws" are created specifically to maintain the communists' dictatorship. There is always an element of choice.

So, when we say that Western companies must follow the law if they are to operate in China, this isn't the same as doing whatever Beijing demands. The cadres in Beijing are also adept at enticing Western companies to toe the party line willingly.

These companies know this when they enter the Chinese market. They cannot accept only the financial profit but none of the responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

I suspect a lot of the American ideas about this come from the time of the cultural revolution, where people were widely persecuted, not only for having the wrong opinions, but also for lots of other things, more or less at random. China has moved on from that - this is a common thing in the world: societies change over time; well, maybe not America, what so I know, but certainly China - how could anyone doubt that? Also, are you absolutely sure that you can get away with having the wrong opinions in America?

From the news today:

A blind activist in China and his family have been placed under house arrest for four months and he was beaten by thugs when he tried to venture out, after exposing forced abortions in his home province on the east coast." More

And some older ones (last few weeks):

Forced labor for writing an article about forced labor camps.

Jailed for organizing a signature campaign against a textbook.

It's obvious that the author of the parent post is either a propogandist for the Chinese government or a deranged lunatic with no grasp of reality (i.e. European). Judging by his well written English, I'll go with the latter.

And to answer the question posed in the excerpt: Yes. I have no fear at all of being persecuted by the U.S. government or local governments for saying anything which does not directly incite violence against another person. However, if I said things like you are saying, I would definitely exepect to be ridiculed by any person who is aware of international events.

Sure they would. Take a look at Harvard University's study of China's most blocked websites!

... 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.

It's an interesting place indeed... built in the Cold War under Prime Minister Diefenbaker (hence the name Diefenbunker).

From the outside, it looks like an unassuming shed, but inside is a blast tunnel that leads into the hillside and down to a four-storey complex beneath. First stop: the radiation decontamination chambers. Last stop: the gift shop, which offers official Cold War-era federal government publications—in English and French—about how to build a bomb shelter at home. Along the way are a room where federal leaders would meet, a room for the Prime Minister (cot-sized only—no spuose allowed), a room for the Governor General, backup headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a sizeable cafeteria, bunk beds (each shared by three people in eight-hour shifts), a filtration system for extracting radioactive particles from surface air, etc.. The transmitters are located something like 14 kilometres away to prevent locating the bunker through triangulation.

At the lowest level is the Bank of Canada vault that would store gold in the event of a disaster (radioactive gold is not so valuable); it has the biggest vault door I've ever seen, and has a rectangular hallway around it with a mirror in each corner so a guard standing in one place could see all the way around.

It's an interesting piece of history that may yet come in handy if the Chinese Communist Party deploys biological or nuclear weapons.

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.

Here's another similar take from Guo Guoting, an attorney

Lawyer Guo has practiced law in China for over 20 years. He believes that, "Yahoo! Inc. is not under any legal obligation to 'conform to the laws of the countries in which they operate,' as was claimed by Jerry Yang." As a law expert, Guo explained that, "Yahoo! Inc. is obligated to first obey International Law. If the International Law happens to be in conflict with the laws in China or with the CCP's strategies, then the International Law should take precedence, which is an internationally acknowledged principle. China is a signatory of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and of the International Covenant on Human Rights. Shi Tao simply exercised his right to the freedom of expression by sending mail. In addition, he was legitimately practicing his profession, not committing a crime. Consequently, Yahoo! Inc. has no legal obligation to cooperate with the government. The legal entity of Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) is not in China, so it is not obligated to operate within the laws of China or to cooperate with the Chinese police."

Q: Could you elaborate on why the OpenBSD team is so committed to releasing its software free of charge and free of restriction?

The first thing to recognize about OpenBSD is that there are about 80 developers and we do OpenBSD for ourselves only. Lots of other people use OpenBSD, but we use it for ourselves. It's just for ourselves--and that means I want OpenBSD to run on everything I've got. I want OpenBSD to work no matter what things come along in the future. This means that we have to have an outside community that will help us with supporting new devices and new technologies. We can't be too 'fringe.' So that means we have to have a user community. But we have a user community only because it benefits us, ourselves.

Actually, most companies don't care! (...) the BSD and GPL licenses are functionally equivalent.
They're functionally equivalent for now, but this is because you can develop code in-house using the GPL for your competitive advantage if you don't release them (GPL FAQ here).This is poised for change in version 3.0.
The reality of the GPL is that it is being widely deployed by companies dual-licensing. That is, they release GPLed code, often with shoddy documentation, and propose to you the alternative of opting for a proprietary licensing scheme.
My understanding of what this scheme means is that, in the end, you end up developing code for free for an enterprise that will license that code under a proprietary license. Exactly how these companies will disentangle GPL code contributions made by others and sell you a proprietary license is something I don't quite understand. Maybe there's a legal, untested, loophole. There's gotta be something, since so many software houses are doing it. Maybe the loophole is the above item of the FAQ above: the company apropriates GPL code and develops it in-house, but for a contractor.
Under the puported forthcoming changes in v 3.0, will you not be able to develop in-house code without giving back. This will push people who are clients of those software houses to two choices: either choose a pure proprietary license, no longer a twin tributary and heir of the GPL code, or the truly viral v. 3.0. You are back to square 1. But if you have the option of a truly viral license, why would you choose the proprietary one? This means both loose.
All this means the GPL is a confusing model. It lends itself to dual-licensing, something the BSD licese aborts by creation. There are no legal loopholes in the BSDL.

However, for big corporations, the reasoning is completely different. The GPL is a big thing for them, but not because of dual-licensing. By commoditizing the complements fo their products (i.e., what they really sell you is hardware , but it runs on Linux - a formulation first written by Joel Spolsky on the now-famous Strategy Letter V), they get garantees that the competitor won't simply incorporate changes. Also, it's a great scheme because it cuts down the cost of development, by getting contributions from the community. Please notice that, whenever, e,g, IBM sells software, it's under a proprietary license (e.g., WebSphere). Either that, or they sell per-seat licenses (e.g. RedHat).
For small independent software vendors, it takes away any competitive advantage you might otherwise aggregate to a client. This is a very important factor, because the BSD allows you to contribute and benefit from a free code base, and still use your software talent to your benefit. There are some real-world scenarios where the Human Factor may actually work against you (I'll come back to that bellow).

So you see, there's absolutely nothing to do with freedom when companies selling per-seat licenses and/or hardware defend the GPL. Don't believe their PR department, please.
Why do companies take BSD code and often don't give anything back. This has more to do with corporate culture. Linux is all about PR and evangelizing. The BSD people always were hackers, before everything else. They only cared about coding, maybe that was their mistake.
And finally, the last aspect I see regarding the GPL is the human factor. A very real world political one, but that's not so evident in the USA, because there's a stronger business culture there. But in my country (Brazil) the government often is the biggest contractor. I've seen the Free Software community be maneuvered by a government

WTF cares what language something is written in.

So, that's where we started, but over time we actually have found a newer class of security problems called integer overflows. Let's say, for example, that you have an integer and you multiply it by another integer. Well, if one of them is user-controllable, what the attacker's going to do is provide you a very large number so that the multiplication actually overflows, the high bits of the result get thrown away, and the result is actually a small number. Programmers only really check the results of such computations; they don't check beforehand. This actually ended up being a security hole about seven and a half years ago in OpenSSH, and it was really, really subtle. It was so subtle, that type of bug, that we realized that this was no longer an API-type of programmer mistake, but that people don't actually understand the C programming language, or even basic arithmetic with restricted-size variables. This integer overflow thing is really scary because as programmers, we really can't spot them; we can read the code, and they'll just go right over our heads. We can't even spot them, even if we know what we're doing.

Just a bit of paranoia to consider.

PetrifiedTruth: talked about activists in prison, a sad relic of China's old ways. But not about Tibet. HRW isn't propaganda, this is a serious problem and you demean it by attempting to say that one wrong means proof of another.

Tibet.ca: Of course the Lama has much to complain about, and rightfully so. But he's kind of as far to one of the sides as you can get. That would be like me arguing with some real propaganda from the Chinese State Department.

Derechos: notice how this is about the Uighurs in Xinjiang? While this is not good can we truly fault their fearful repression of Islam given the state that Bush has put the world in?

Ah, something truly related to Tibet. 1st Amnesty link: Namdrol's story is a sad one. China needs to learn that locking up outspoken individuals does nothing but further their cause. Thanks to a lot of time and energy we are finally getting them to turn around, we hope anyway.

2nd Amnesty link: this is a good one. A nice summary of the current problems of China, of which there are many. Torture is still used, protesters are locked up when too outspoken, and the war on Terror has given them a new sense of liberty to justify it all. It is rather disheartening, but I take heart in the fact that it has been much, much worse and got better even so.

And are these truly the best you find? You need to update your links. I would have at least tried to smack me down with this great speech by Amalia Rubin.

who's going to preserve Western Culture heritage if the US completes it's path towards fascism... India!? The Chinese!!? Well, apparently it's going to be the French. Good for them.

Get your head out of Michael Moore's ass, and realize that the French are slimy, greedy bastards, too: http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-4-21/28029.htm l

As we have seen from recent Slashdot postings [1][2], China (or the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rather) has been increasing it's internet censorship. But what for? It turns out that CCP membership is in drastic decline. It is estimated that there are about 50 million members and according to international newspaper The Epoch Times (English)(Chinese), over one million of them have issued written statements of withdrawal. This has occurred over the past two months at a rate of over 20,000 per day. This is thought to be a direct cause of a published compilation of articles, Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party which provides a critical analysis of the CCP and it's last 80 years of leading the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). This past weekend, a parade was held in New York to celebrate this milestone and the potential future of China.

As we have seen from recent Slashdot postings [1][2], China (or the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rather) has been increasing it's internet censorship. But what for? It turns out that CCP membership is in drastic decline. It is estimated that there are about 50 million members and according to international newspaper The Epoch Times (English)(Chinese), over one million of them have issued written statements of withdrawal. This has occurred over the past two months at a rate of over 20,000 per day. This is thought to be a direct cause of a published compilation of articles, Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party which provides a critical analysis of the CCP and it's last 80 years of leading the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). This past weekend, a parade was held in New York to celebrate this milestone and the potential future of China.

As we have seen from recent Slashdot postings [1][2], China (or the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rather) has been increasing it's internet censorship. But what for? It turns out that CCP membership is in drastic decline. It is estimated that there are about 50 million members and according to international newspaper The Epoch Times (English)(Chinese), over one million of them have issued written statements of withdrawal. This has occurred over the past two months at a rate of over 20,000 per day. This is thought to be a direct cause of a published compilation of articles, Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party which provides a critical analysis of the CCP and it's last 80 years of leading the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). This past weekend, a parade was held in New York to celebrate this milestone and the potential future of China.