[lunchables]

>One thing I find rather odd is how noone raises an eyebrow that apparently the US happily admitts to having some enormous spy network in China.

What do you think the CIA does? Are you really so naive as to not believe that US spy agencies don't, well, SPY? We have both declared and undeclared agents, as every major country does.

>It is especially puzzeling if one compares it with the reaction to foreign countries supposedly making posts or buying ads on Facebook or Youtube with the intent of influencing elections in the US.

It's not "puzzeling" at all. Big difference between spying and actively trying to influence an election.

[frabbit]

Yeah, big difference. But both are illegal. Both are things that pseudo-naive people and commentators bloviate about Russia or China doing. Both are actively pursued all the time by US administrations... for decades¹. And that's the nice side of US policy, the one that doesn't end up with hundreds of thousands of bombs dropped on your country by super-patriots.

1. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-...