[darronz]

Perhaps there is an upshot. If the Chinese government have complete access to all traffic in China, they will be unable to deny knowledge of hacking originating from their own IP blocks. By the same token you would expect that all unlawful traffic originating in China to cease.

[thoughtstheseus]

Why would that be the expected?

[Ill_ban_myself]

Because if it did not stop it would imply the Chinese government accepts and approves of the criminal acts

[ppf]

And then?

[kristofferR]

Hehe, it's completely off-topic, but the combination of China and "And then?" reminded me of this hilarious movie scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqwzuiSy9y0

[ppf]

It's not an accident ;-)