What's the latest China announcement?

Syracuse NY Bitcoin meetup group founded in October 2013.  
We meet every other Thursday 6-9 PM at the Syracuse Innovators Guild.
For directions and more information see our page on meetup.com
http://meetup.com/Join-Bitcoins-of-New-York-Miners-of-Syracuse/
Our next meetup is this week! Thurs (12/19) Next one will be in the new year!

If the tool is unknown there is alot of room for concern, particularly when it comes to the implementation of brain wallets.  If the keys were generated with a weak passphrase it is trivial to steal your coins.  Read through this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251037.0 and see just how quickly your coins will get be taken if you try to store them in an address protected by a weak passphrase. 

What is the hold up with mt gox adding LTC? I thought it was supposed to happen in August?  They do not seem to be very vocal on the issue.

So as far as I know that there are 2^160 or 1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976 addresses that can exist as long as the current algorithms continue to be used.  My question is how many bitcoin addresses have been generated to date and where can I find the number of addresses in use on the network?  (yes, the block chain but has someone extrapolated the information) Also how could we know or maybe estimate how many addresses have been generated offline (paper wallets, vanity addresses etc.)  As bitcoin adoption becomes more widespread at what point would this algorithm consider being changed? (I realize this may not occur for a very long time)