HP Teams Up with... Communists?

From AdAge:

Hewlett-Packard is finding unusual comrades -- members of China's Communist Youth League -- to help expand its business in rural China.

"Rural China represents a huge market, about 700 million people and already today, about 100 million of them are online. They have access to the internet and engage. The rest are non-internet users, but they are still a huge opportunity," said Robin Seow, Beijing-based marketing director for HP's Personal Systems Group in China.

Regardless of the profits... Seriously, HP? You actually thought it would be a good idea to team up with the Communist Youth League? Were the Black Panthers, the KKK and the Hitler Youth busy?