Sparring with commies

IN "Project for a New Chinese Century" (Oct. 10), Max Boot calls for using media to "crack open, not cement, the authority of the Communist party."

I would like to call attention to the boldest and most effective effort to date to "crack open" the authority of the Chinese Communist party: the Epoch Times's publication of the "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party" (available at www.ninecommentaries.com). The message of the "Nine Commentaries" is quite simple: The CCP is illegitimate, and its rule must end.

This series of editorials, which is also broadcast via radio, gives the Chinese people an uncensored history of the CCP that details its massive crimes; explains how it has ruled China through terror, lies, and the control of all information; and shows how it has set out to destroy all traditional forms of morality and belief. The "Nine Commentaries" is an appeal to the conscience of the Chinese people to shake off the rule of an evil tyranny.

The effect within China has been dramatic. Since early December, 5.2 million Chinese have renounced all association with the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Approximately 20,000 renounce the CCP every day. Naturally, the CCP has done everything within its power to prevent the spread of the "Nine Commentaries." For instance, just a few weeks ago, the Epoch Times published the story of police officer Han Xinlei of Xi'an City, Shanxi Province, who was murdered after having renounced the CCP. A recent study done at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School shows that websites referencing the "Nine Commentaries" are the most likely to be blocked by Internet filters in China.

Boot also suggests that "we need to champion Chinese dissidents, intellectuals, and political prisoners, and help make them as famous as Andrei Sakharov, Vaclav Havel, and Lech Walesa." We at the Epoch Times strongly agree and suggest that those of us outside China begin by calling attention to the millions inside China who have renounced the CCP. Their peaceful acts of extraordinary courage are helping bring a better future to China, and, as Boot makes clear, we all should be deeply grateful.

STEPHEN GREGORY

Chairman, the Epoch Times

Chicago, IL

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