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[-] MuhammadJesusGaySex@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Also, yeah? Who cares? Let's talk about the countless times Chinese agents have been caught infiltrating US systems. If we're accepting that this is just a part of spycraft in the Internet era then you don't get to bitch and whine when you catch someone else doing it

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Everyone's been bitching and whining about catching others spies, though?

[-] whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Who cares about American propaganda?

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America accuses China of cyberattacks all the time. Yet I don't see many Americans questioning government narrative there.

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 30 points 1 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 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 13 points 1 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 1 points 1 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.

[-] generalpotato@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Good. We need more of it since the CCP has made a habit of targeting US infrastructure and civilian targets.

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[-] yoz@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago

China and US are a reap problem to this world.

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[-] Alpharius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 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@hexbear.net 28 points 1 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 0 points 1 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.

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

From what I read, it seems like they took over a year to investigate the cyber attack before making their conclusions public.

Also I thought the party line was communism, not anti-Americanism.

To be honest, this here doesn't seem that out-of-place in terms of how a sovereign nation would respond to a cyber attack by another sovereign nation.

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[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Their whole political identity is being against the US

kettle

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

they are not transparent at all on their investigations and sources.

God, I just hate when they are completely opaque in their accusations. Good thing they fired Ned Price.

[-] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

a new form of colonialism in Africa

Aka not colonialism.

[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

But you see, bridges and train stations are clearly racist because they're built by Chinese people on time and on budget.

[-] JuryNullification@hexbear.net 19 points 1 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.

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

It's projection. It's clear and obvious projection.

[-] RuthlessCriticism@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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@hexbear.net 14 points 1 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@hexbear.net 15 points 1 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 5 points 1 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 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] comr@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Kaffemannen@feddit.nu 2 points 1 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.

[-] absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[-] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

It’s for the cameras and their own citizens.

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[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Cry more, Xi

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 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.

[-] Nerorero@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Number 1: that's terror

Number 2: that's terror

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

US stealing tech from China, how the turn tables.

[-] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 4 points 1 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.

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