White House: "We expect" Hong Kong to comply with Snowden extradition

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31. If they were limiting this to targetting the PRC, it would be much smaller,

more discreet, and no one would be talking about it.

They aren't, and it isn't, and that is why someone is talking about it.

I assure you that the PRC probably already knew about this program. Chinese students are in every graduate department in nearly every university in the country. They train for their work here.

If we want to maintain our sovereignty and secrets, we first have to be more discerning about who we allow to enter our country and for what purposes.

Student exchanges are great, but we should put certain limits on them. And we should not have H1-B visa-holders who have utterly no loyalty to the US doing so much of our computer work.

We should be educating Americans to do that work and to provide the creativity we need.

The internet is a system. If you learn to understand a system, you can analyze it and figure out what it could do. Then you can test it to see if it will do what you think it could do. I believe that the Chinese hack into the internet use of their own citizens. If they do that, what would prevent them from hacking into the rest of the internet, and what would prevent them from identifying people who can break codes, who have the mathematical facility to work on codes. It is naive to think that the Chinese would not have broken into our most classified information. We taught them how to do it.

They have been making our computers for years. We always underestimate the intelligence of others because we think that wealth is proof of intelligence so anyone less wealthy than we must be stupid. That is a huge mistake. It is simply wrong.