I think the reality is that everybody spies on everybody, it’s absurd to pretend otherwise. Every time I see these kinds of stories, it’s just exposing how vulnerable the US infrastructure is. The most telling bit of the article, in my opinion, was this:
US telecom groups have done little to protect themselves from Salt Typhoon because of the huge cost involved in making networks resilient. Warner in December said US networks were particularly vulnerable because they were built when cyber security was not a serious concern.
Yeah, I think the important part is imperialist media makes it sound like spying is exceptional and like China has some almighty power of espionage over them that it’s going to use in a war it starts. When the likelihood is that any spying China is doing is directed primarily toward self-defense: probing offensive capabilities of a potential threat, probing military defenses in case of a hot war, being able to see threats coming without getting jumped because the US power structure is a fucking war-mongering machine that hates anyone who tries to be self-determining, much less communist. China has nothing to gain from trying to dominate the racist, gun-happy reactionaries of the US who would be more than happy to have an excuse to go full racist against Chinese people and other ethnicities that they can’t tell the difference between. But China does need to guard its sovereignty against the type of shit the US pulls against anyone and everyone, including kidnapping presidents.
It’s the classic strong and weak at the same time BS. We’re supposed to believe China is scary powerful and that the US is super duper vulnerable to its spying, but also that they’re someone the empire should pick a fight with. If they are actually as powerful as these imperialist shit-shovelers make them out to be, the conclusion should be 100% to stop fucking around with vilifying them and work toward peace. Not use these shoddy narratives as more reason to saber rattle. But if there’s one thing the imperialists cannot abide, it’s a country that doesn’t bend the knee.
I think the reality is that everybody spies on everybody, it’s absurd to pretend otherwise. Every time I see these kinds of stories, it’s just exposing how vulnerable the US infrastructure is. The most telling bit of the article, in my opinion, was this:
Yeah, I think the important part is imperialist media makes it sound like spying is exceptional and like China has some almighty power of espionage over them that it’s going to use in a war it starts. When the likelihood is that any spying China is doing is directed primarily toward self-defense: probing offensive capabilities of a potential threat, probing military defenses in case of a hot war, being able to see threats coming without getting jumped because the US power structure is a fucking war-mongering machine that hates anyone who tries to be self-determining, much less communist. China has nothing to gain from trying to dominate the racist, gun-happy reactionaries of the US who would be more than happy to have an excuse to go full racist against Chinese people and other ethnicities that they can’t tell the difference between. But China does need to guard its sovereignty against the type of shit the US pulls against anyone and everyone, including kidnapping presidents.
It’s the classic strong and weak at the same time BS. We’re supposed to believe China is scary powerful and that the US is super duper vulnerable to its spying, but also that they’re someone the empire should pick a fight with. If they are actually as powerful as these imperialist shit-shovelers make them out to be, the conclusion should be 100% to stop fucking around with vilifying them and work toward peace. Not use these shoddy narratives as more reason to saber rattle. But if there’s one thing the imperialists cannot abide, it’s a country that doesn’t bend the knee.
For sure, at this point I just filter out the bias when I read these articles. It’s always the same talking points.