• Ya know, maybe the US did it. But, (and I know this is a hot take) maybe China is lying. I know that’s crazy, because China is a bastion of truth. I know that China is known the world over for being fair and balanced. Not since George Washington and the cherry tree has there been such an honest institution as the CCP. But I also feel that they could be lying. I mean who knows.

  • zephyreks [none/use name]
    link
    fedilink
    301 year ago

    Anyone surprised by this is kidding themselves. Only a few countries have developed sophisticated cyberattack capabilities and even fewer are actually interested in China.

    Plus, ever since China went around and started executing CIA operatives in China, the US has been operating rather blind with regards to China.

    • @library_napper
      link
      21 year ago

      A few? China, the US, Russia, North Korea, Israel, the UK, Iran…

      • zephyreks [none/use name]
        link
        fedilink
        131 year ago

        Russia, North Korea, Iran have no reason to launch cyberattacks on China. Neither does Israel, really (their capability is far more oriented towards, y’know, their immediate vicinity). We’re left with the US and UK, but as we all know, the UK doesn’t really have international power anymore and as a result has little reason to provoke China.

        • @LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml
          link
          fedilink
          11 year ago

          the UK doesn’t really have international power anymore and as a result has little reason to provoke China.

          The UK does little else geopolitically right now other than provoke China.

      • Kata1yst
        link
        fedilink
        11 year ago

        And what do you propose a sovereign nation who’s citizens, business, and assets are constantly under attack from state sponsored actors do? Bend over?

        This isn’t escalation. It’s minimal tit-for-tat.

        • @zephyreks@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          -1
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Constantly under attack? Remember that even back when the KMT was in power, Chiang Kai-Shek was (rightfully) suspicious that the CIA was plotting a coup to overthrow him.

          Moreover, when the CCP was rising with Mao Zedong, the CIA used something like $100 million USD at the time to try to create a third group in China that could combat the other two (the KMT and CCP) with the explicit goal of undermining Mao’s power.

          China’s existing actions don’t even come close to tit-for-tat and America’s continued subversive actions show that nothing has changed whatsoever. The US still thinks it can fuck around in the domestic affairs of other countries and leave unscathed without retribution.

        • Black AOC
          link
          fedilink
          1
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Crickets and their brother’s cousin’s aunt’s mother’s sister’s network engineer twice removed… Who just so happens to get all of his news exclusively from the government propaganda trough(pick a color).

  • YⓄ乙
    link
    fedilink
    English
    91 year ago

    China and US are a reap problem to this world.

  • @Alpharius@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    71 year ago

    China crying when the US does the same thing in return. Why does the CCP act so childish ?

    No really why ? They are actively using exported digital and electronics goods to spy on everyone. They try to catch political dissidents outside their borders, spy on several government infrastructures and try to instigate a new form of colonialism in Africa, so what exactly are they crying about ?

    I really despise these hypocrites.

    • muddi [he/him]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      281 year ago

      This is a bizarre reply. What would be the adult response for China after discovering cyber attacks carried out by the US government?

      • @Alpharius@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        01 year ago

        Their whole political identity is being against the US. Other than that, a more “adult” response would be to not immediately accuse the US of everything bad that happened. Another problem with the CCP is that they refuse to say the truth when it isn’t convenient to them, they are not transparent at all on their investigations and sources.

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        20
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        colonialism is when you build bridges and train stations xigma-male

        non-colonialism is when you have 50+ military bases scattered across a foreign continent and keep all their cash in your banks and don’t allow them to even withdraw it and you assassinate the last 10 democratically elected leaders who tried to change this arrangement nato-cool

    • JuryNullification [he/him]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      191 year ago

      They are actively using exported digital and electronics goods to spy on everyone.

      https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/nsa-reportedly-installing-spyware-on-us-made-hardware/

      They try to catch political dissidents outside their borders,

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange

      spy on several government infrastructures

      https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spied-merkel-other-top-european-officials-through-danish-2021-05-30/

      and try to instigate a new form of colonialism in Africa, so what exactly are they crying about ?

      https://www.africom.mil/

      I really despise these hypocrites.

      I’ll save you the trouble and put “Whatsboutism” here so you don’t even have to reply.

    • RuthlessCriticism [comrade/them]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      16
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      This, except its the other way around. The amount of American crying about cyberattacks is crazy given the amount of evidence they have provided.

    • TheGamingLuddite [none/use name]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      141 year ago

      Chinese foreign policy has rarely deviated from moderate, trade-oriented and relatively apolitical over the past few decades. I think the massive allocation of US taxpayer funds toward negative coverage of China has swayed your opinion to the most hawkish extreme. None of these accusations really exist outside of the anglosphere and HK/Taiwan based Sinophone disinfo networks, however most of them are widely acknowledged as crimes that the US has committed in the very recent past in some capacity.

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        151 year ago

        this dude over here really had his “chinabad” switch turned on in 2018 and doesn’t even realize it or remember what it was like in the before-fore times

      • @zephyreks@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        51 year ago

        Taiwanese media wasn’t even that dedicated to Chinese disinformation up until like 2016 or whatever.

        Relations were normalizing across the strait smh.

    • @library_napper
      link
      91 year ago

      How about we publish instances of such crimes by all governments and hold all of them accountable?

    • comr [he/him]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      81 year ago

      China does not take an interest in spying on the average westerner.

    • @Kaffemannen@feddit.nu
      link
      fedilink
      21 year ago

      Well, it’s just common sense to treat others the same way you expect them to treat you. In a perfect more pleasant world neither the west or china would feel the need to spy on each other, but we are where we are.

      • Black AOC
        link
        fedilink
        0
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        In a perfect more pleasant world

        In a more pleasant world, America would’ve shuttered its surveillance apparatus and downcycled the embryonic military-industrial complex directly after World War 2, rather than being cartoonishly evil and inventing a new term for a ‘propaganda war’ with aim to snuff out the one system that presented clear opposition to the oligarchic tyranny of capital; then having a couple dozen courses of dessert stomping out every burgeoning society in the Global South looking to free themselves from the yoke. Instead, America wanted to rule the world; and thus, no one has been allowed to disarm.

        Because the death cult won’t come to its senses.

      • Sasquatch
        link
        fedilink
        21 year ago

        I’d like to kindly inform you that our use of Timecubes is well within interdimensional regulations. It’s humans who do all the crazy conspiracy ranting, that’s entirely on you guys.

  • @Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    21 year ago

    I mean doesn’t this just mean at most, that the software used was developed by NSA? It’s not like we haven’t had our own shortage of government hacks in the last few years, it’s not an insane notion to think somebody could use our tools to make it look like us.

    • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      41 year ago

      Yeah, also the TikTok clones on YouTube and Instagram, and Musk’s plan to make Twitter/X a WeChat clone. The Americans have been stealing tech from China for a long time now.