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by RWeaver 4682 days ago
No doubt. If China had done this, the USA would be at the brink of war right now. They would be 'terrorists', or 'information terrorists' or something bizarre for undermining the 'international government'.

So over the USA.

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Oh please. China hacked into the JSF project at Lockheed twice, and the US did its best to avoid confrontation at all cost.
Yes, because some BS plane project is the same as the UN. And because the US didn't do exactly the same for similar Chinese projects.
> And because the US didn't do exactly the same for similar Chinese projects.

That is irrelevant, I answered to a message in context, and that context was "if china did the hacking, US would be on the brink of war".

Which is why I pointed out that the US mostly had no real reaction when China did hack twice not just some UN politician emails, but the biggest military project of the US, one meant to replace pretty much every other fighter planes they have except the f22 for the foreseeable future.

So if they did not do anything about that, no, they would not be on the brink of war over a Chinese hack of the UN. But I'm sure they would write a strongly worded letter.

>That is irrelevant, I answered to a message in context, and that context was "if china did the hacking, US would be on the brink of war".

Well, the context was wrong, anyway. The real context is: "if china did that, US would hypocritically cry about it".