America Leads in Stealing yet Dares To Criticize Others

[unhappycamper]

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If America's national secrets are rightfully secrets and China may not access them, then why does the U.S. wantonly access Chinese secrets?

America Leads in Stealing yet Dares To Criticize Others
Huanqiu, China
By Shen Dingli
Translated By Bion Johnson
25 March 2014
Edited by Tess Chadwick

The latest news from former American intelligence agent Edward Snowden is that the U.S. National Security Agency has been digitally eavesdropping on Chinese leaders, banks and a multitude of national government agencies in response to alleged spying activity by Huawei Technologies Company.

Regardless of whether it's the official communications of China's national leaders or the internal documents of the government's ministries, both are under the protection of Chinese law. And regardless of this being the age of information, we should still consider this a matter of our national sovereignty. This is the point America does not understand. America uses the same reasoning to criticize Chinese hackers for targeting its information networks. Even if the target at hand is an American company, the U.S. still regards its information as a valuable treasure. The American government has adopted the safeguarding of American companies’ intellectual property as its sacred mission.

So then, are Chinese state secrets unworthy of protection? If America's national secrets are rightfully secrets and China may not access them, then why does the U.S. wantonly access Chinese secrets? Clearly, America is pursuing an imperialist policy with Internet security when other countries are left with no option but to respect the sovereignty of American information, but America finds itself entirely without need to respect that of other countries.

Behavior this arrogant and selfish is unacceptable for any country. It has been deemed unacceptable not only by the president of Brazil and the chancellor of Germany but also by leaders of China and other countries that have found themselves encroached upon by America's Internet policies. China rejects the American justification for its encroachment on China's digital sovereignty at least to the same extent that America rejects the justification offered by other countries that have encroached upon its own digital secrets. Furthermore, China opposes any spy or thief that would, by leaking Chinese secrets, jeopardize our country's political stability, national defense or economic development.

[pipoman]

1. Anyone who believes China isn't spying is kidding themselves

and that goes for most other developed nations too..