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China hacks Google… Chinese government cyber division accused of hacking Google is a very self explanatory headline and I hope this vulnerability will be addressed swiftly.
But of course the NSA would never do that. They do not need to when they have FISA courts to rubber stamp any fishing expeditions they wish to carry out. No need to break in when you have a spare set of keys under the doormat any time you want to look around.
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Yeah, but the Chinese are using tools and stuff created by the NSA. Just ask Snowden and the guys at the Gourd. They were provoked into it. (Sarcasm, for those of you unfamiliar with the concept.)
Frankly, I’m less concerned about the Chinese hacking into my emails than my own government. The Chinese can do me a whole lot less harm.
I rather short sighted view Laird – as you may discover before your life reaches its end.
The “Forth Modernisation” (announced as long ago as 1978) proceeds.
Chinese economic reform was always for the purpose of gaining the economic and technological means for military modernisation.
All those manufacturing exports from China are for this purpose – allowing private businessmen to get rich was a price that was paid (that is how the PRC leadership see the matter) for military strength.
The PRC regime has unlimited claims to lands and seas which are then declared “always part of China” even if they have nothing to do with China.
It is not really Marxism (although they claim to be Marxists) it is more a form of National Socialism – Han Chinese racial power directed by a tyrannical (but pragmatic) regime.
Whether it is gaining more attack submarines than the U.S. Navy (a goal that is already achieved), to gaining Cyber power, the P.R.C. regime is prepared to tolerate “capitalism” (even people getting “filthy rich”) in order to gain the military power they crave.
Military power they will use – as American power declines and then collapses.
As for the American (and other Western) states.
They have failed – the governments that are obsessed with reading your e.mails (and perving at women via hijacked webcams) have utterly failed to guard against the Chinese intelligence and security agencies.
Indeed they have put the welcome mat down for the PRC regime – basically handing them the technological secrets on a plate.
Of the large Western nations only the United States still has military forces worth considering.
And the American military is in steep decline – and may soon collapse.
Perhaps so, Paul, but one has to get through the short term to even reach the long term, so please forgive me if I focus on what I perceive to be the more immediate threat. In this respect, anyway, Keynes was correct.