[duskwuff]

> nothing else seems to justify the seemingly-coordinated push-back against the story

Uh... other than the reputational damage to the companies named in the story? A claim that Amazon's servers were actually compromised by China would have a significant impact on their cloud business. Ditto for any of the other companies (allegedly) involved.

[Lammy]

Yeah, that doesn’t make sense to me as justification for the existence of the story.