[Jeff Head]

I agree with the entire premise of this article, and the close at hand, experience, it brings from people who know the Communist Chinese system, it's embrace of the culture of death (as the article says, "Almost all evil cults control their followers or resist external pressure through violence. However, few have resorted to the extent the CCP has to violent means without compunction. Even the total number of deaths caused by all other evil cults across the world cannot compare to the number of people killed by the CCP. The CCP cult sees humanity as merely a means to realize its goal; killing is just another means."), and its overtly tyranical nature.

At the same time, those leaders have found a means to extend their life span (speaking of the system) through courting and mesmerizing the west with the potential of a huge market (which they never intend to open to the west for the vast majority of their peoples), and cheap labor, so that the funds literally pour in. My contention is that the Chinese Communist party WILL ultimately go down. By helping them fund their own misbegotten attempts to rise to self-sufficiency, when they otherwise would have failed miserably and fallen, we may in fact insure that it goes down hard (meaning the potential for out and out war). Either way, it will fail and free will and a republican form of government will ultimately return to China IMHO.

[snowsislander]

My contention is that the Chinese Communist party WILL ultimately go down. By helping them fund their own misbegotten attempts to rise to self-sufficiency, when they otherwise would have failed miserably and fallen, we may in fact insure that it goes down hard (meaning the potential for out and out war). Either way, it will fail and free will and a republican form of government will ultimately return to China IMHO.

We all hope so. Another Warring States period would be bad enough, but the thought that the present vile regime will continue unabated is, in my opinion, even worse.

The happiest of all endings would be another Velvet Revolution, but I don't think Chinese history offers a great deal of hope on that count. (It's not my area, though, and I could simple be unaware of such an event or even events in Chinese history.)

I think we should stop supporting the current regime, and cease trade with such a repugnant government.