The first thing about tyrannies is that they have all kinds of perfectly sensible people against them from the word go, not just a few nutjobs. Does China want Taiwan and South Korea and Japan to each have the bomb? Can all the police in the world acting without scruple keep a demonstrator out of Tianamen Square? (They can clear it one-off killing a thousand of their own people, but can't stop people coming back). China also has terrorist attacks domestically from seperatists in the northwestern province.
Yes, I am well aware the whole idea is to use "openness" against us, and that the extremes of PC are not a response. I am not suggesting one oppose threats of WMD terrorism with flowers and earnestness. But the idea that simply being a bastard eliminates security threats is silly; it creates at least as many. There is a reason tyrants are paranoid. As the classics put it, it is because they "spend their lives like those condemned by all mankind to die for their injustice."
I apologize, I should have stated the obvious:
I was addressing the specific flavor of asymmetic warfare that this thread presented, the surrogate attack by a small foreign group representing another foreign group.
I other words, imagine all the mideastern nut jobs taking flying lessons in China and sneaking in for years undocumented; or scraming daily messages from mosques about the destruction of Chinese society...
I find that inconceiveable.
Internal dissent, resistance, assasination and intrigue is a whole other thing.