I agree and would rephrase it as client side frameworks help to enforce a clean and well defined API on the data, thus help to separate the business logic from representation / interaction, which is kind of the original goal of MVC.
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Being in China for more than 30 years I can tell the Chinese growth model is really simple: #1 An international economy and market so that we have a common currency to measure. The government also controls foreign exchange so that the "valuation" can be bumped to a high level. #2 A billion slaves so that you can get things done really quick and nobody would ever challenge. #3 No cost. In China pretty much everything is owned by "the public", so that those "country owned" companies can get the land and other resources with a very low price or even free. Labor is cheap. And you don't need to clean up the waste you produce: you can just throw them anywhere. The companies have no incentive for efficiency improvements so that the resources consumption is fast.
Before the "economic reform" in 1990s #1 didn't exist so you only see the growth in recent years.
This is a damn simple business and even a dog can make a lot money out of it easily. It is not replicatable (#2/#3) so it only happened in China. This is of course unsustainable. The minerals are exhausted, the environment is polluted and most of the people are still poor and the population getting old due to the one child policy. I would say we may see a collapse in the future 5 years or even less.
So the reality is really nasty. Many of the netizen in China are somehow running naked: you can simply query the password after you get the email.
And the US will certainly won't start the war either, because you can hardly find someone else who keep lending you money almost unconditionally.
Though with the "economic reform" and the unstoppable information flow with internet, China has become something really weird unlike anyone else in the history. Nobody believes in communism and everybody knows the government is lying all the time and yet just lives with it. Every activity by the government is for money and mostly quick money (for the officials).
I don't even think the hackers in this matter care much for the information. They may just try to get more funds from the government. Sometimes they even frame somebody or fake a threats to get the money. The funds will always be granted in such a situation because "if you don't grant you put the country in danger" and "if you grant you can take the commissions".
Most of the time every bit of it is simply dirty corrupted business. Many of the officials' children are permanent residents in the US. Some of them are even already citizens.
To me signing the petition is simply to let others know my attitude, and to let those who hold the same stand know that they are not alone.
Having been in the internet industry in China for more than 10 years before I decided to move to the US I would say CNNIC is just as evil as any government organization in China if not worse. There are some well known rules regarding CNNIC: don't buy a .cn domain, don't install any software from them and don't trust what they say.
BTW non government organizations are technically banned in China. You need to apply for a permit and you seldom get one.