[mpyne]

The PRC doesn't feel embarrassment about this, but not because of anything the US is or isn't doing. The way they see it, espionage is a fair method of catching up to (and then exceeding) the US, and if it keeps working then maybe the US should actually do something about it. After all, it's not like the Chinese ever voted for strong "intellectual property" protection, they see it as a rule imposed on them by the rest of the world instead of some universal behavioral norm.

The US complaining about their hacking just proves to them how effective it is.

Now, the US engages in strategic espionage for different reasons (just as China actually engages in strategic espionage, which the US doesn't complain about in public). But US representatives should be embarrassed here just because their whining proves the point to the PRC.

[mjklin]

> Chinese

> voted

Might be the first time I've ever seen those two words together in a sentence.

[mpyne]

You should pay attention to the UN more then, even if they do usually abstain from voting.