american freedom? partly playing politics if you are schooled in the politics of the zero sum world, your loss is my gain. something more than that mostly they do it because the communist party of china believes it is locked in a life or death struggle with the united states and unlike us, it acts accordingly. nearly a decade ago, the communist leadership gathered to discuss the world situation and china's place in it the result of this particular meeting was a circular communique on the current state of the ideological sphere better known simply as document number 9. document number 9 had one purpose and one purpose only to let the 90 million members of the communist party of china know who the enemy is. here, according to the ccp's general office are the enemy's weapons. western constitutional democracy. western freedom, democracy and human rights. civil society, individual rights, freedom of the press, the separation of powers, the