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by prmths 2966 days ago
What makes you think they don't do that? Of course they do that. They even send chinese women to seduce lonely pathetic FBI/CIA/etc officials to get information. There was a huge story about it a few years ago.

But everyone does it. The brits, french, russians, koreans, japanese, germans, saudis, etc all do it. Hell the nation with the largest spy network in the US is our ally Israel.

The chinese are amateurs when it comes to spying on the internet or in the real world. Once they get to israel's level, then you the media won't even report on their spying and if they do, they'll make excuses for it.

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> everyone does it

In this discussion of 19 comments, I count around 5, more than 25%, that say some variation of 'everyone else does it too', but never with any support for the claim. It's generally true of any discussion mentioning China, though I don't have the precise numbers. The marginal value of these comments was low, lacking any support, and is greatly diminishing with use.

> but never with any support for the claim.

Because it's well known and established.

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/05/16/israel-wont-stop-spying-u...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-intellige...

https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/03/politics/germany-media-spying...

That every major nation spies on each other is obvious.

Why do you think every major nation has a spy agency?

> The marginal value of these comments was low, lacking any support, and is greatly diminishing with use.

It's not everyone's fault you don't know the basics. What are you whining about? That you are ignorant of what government and spy agencies do?

If people said all governments pass laws are you whine about how people don't provide evidence of it?