[JoeAltmaier]

I'm astonished that Chinese cyberattacks don't warrant some kind of shutdown between the Chinese internet and the rest of the word (or NATO anyway).

Devastating to commerce? Sure! For a day or so. Then the Chinese cyberattacks would cease and we could go back to normal.

How could you tell? Well, there are countless websites that purport to graph such things realtime. Ask one of them to monitor the situation. It goes above a trivial threshold - the pipe is shut off for a day.

But that's just a naieve citizen, wondering why government is so screwed up that it allows constant unrelenting financial attacks against its people without repercussions.

[halJordan]

Good sounding at the highest levels but you quickly reach contradictions. The biggest contradiction is that you're charged with protecting people and your plan of action is going to devastate them far more than the cyberattack did. Real cut off the nose to spite the face stuff. The fact that the Chinese internet isnt cut off should be an indicator that the govt does in fact care about the little man but I'm sure that's a step too far here.

[JoeAltmaier]

For a short time. The Chinese will be hurt as well. Money may mean a lot to them.

I think the scope of Chinese malfeasance may be underestimated here. It's constant and malicious. Some kind of negative feedback, any kind, would likely have an immediate response.