China Hacks US One Day After Obama Announces No-Hacking Deal


One day after a cyber-truce agreement, Chinese hackers tried to collect trade secrets and intellectual property from the pharmaceutical and technology industries.  Between the vaunted Iran nuclear agreement and this failure of this most recent agreement with China, it’s looking more and more like Obama may be actively trying to sabotage America’s strides towards peace and progress.

There is no reason to soft-pedal what these attacks represent.  So far, it looks like Obama’s agreement with Xi was just for show.  Obama loves to talk tough and pat himself on the back for intimidating the Chinese into good behavior, such as his post-agreement declaration that he would be “watching carefully to make an assessment as to whether progress has been made in this area.”

In truth, Beijing clearly sees no need to make any “progress” beyond tagging and bagging a couple of disposable hackers to reinforce its long-standing narrative about how it hates cyber-espionage more than anyone… while its campaign of cyber-espionage continues unabated.

Xi knows Obama has neither the inclination, nor political stature, to make his big splashy announcements look foolish by calling China out, and there isn’t much he would be prepared to do about it anyway.  China has only to look at Iran to see how seriously an Obama sanctions threat should be taken.

Source: Breitbart

With Chinese hackers seemingly beyond the control of their own government, what else may be targeted? And where is the information going? Certainly to inform Chinese interests, but could it also be shared with Russian intelligence agencies? Who knows? What is clear is that Obama doesn’t have a handle on the situation anymore than the Chinese can control their own hackers.



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