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by resters
2743 days ago
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Hackers breaching US Navy contractors tells us one important thing: That the US Navy is not doing adequate due diligence on the firms it allow to be contractors. This story is part of the campaign to present China as an unethical, capable adversary and threat. In reality, China wants to trade peacefully with the US and the aggression is nearly 100% on the US side and is meant to garner all the benefits of threat-oriented chest pounding for US politicians. The #1 rule of being a citizen should be "don't let them tell you who to fear or who to hate". Sadly, the NYT, Bloomberg, and the WSJ are all telling us to hate and fear China, when it's obvious that the US has domestic political motives in mind. In the US, leaders need an enemy or the conversation might turn to things like "why do we have poisonous drinking water?" or "Why has there been a trend of downward mobility?" or "Why didn't anyone get punished for Snowden's revelations or for the lies that led to the Iraq war?" |
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You don't need to make this claim to support the rest of your point. I agree with the gist of your comment but think this point makes it easier to attack the overall message.
Personally, I think China is trading with the goal of jump starting their economy, and then seeing where they end up. China's incentives aren't to act within our paradigm of free trade, but to attempt to operate on it. If free trade is truly a Schelling point, then we'll remain there. Otherwise at the end of the day, holding currency or title to imaginary property won't matter, but where the factories are located will.
But that isn't really relevant to the larger point that all this finger pointing at China (or Russia, depending on the month) is just basic scapegoating to cover the asses of negligent contractors and corrupt government.