America Fabricates Tales of Chinese Hackers To Distract from Their Own Deceit

Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who escaped to Hong Kong, revealed that the American National Security Agency surpasses the rest of the world in hacking activities with 61,000 incidents, including several hundred targets within China and Hong Kong. The U.S. government has invaded the backbone of the Internet. For example, they have used enormous network routers to obtain several hundred thousand digital communication records without even deciphering any encryptions. The information exposed by Snowden shocked the world. It proved that U.S. accusations against “Chinese cyberterrorists” were not only the ploy of the pot calling the kettle black, but were also a clear example of the strategy whereby one feigns one way to attack another. In order to underhandedly create the false perception that other countries, especially China, are full of hackers; the U.S. defends by accusing. Through public opinion and a fearful mental state, they obstruct the development of other countries’ cyber counterattack capabilities. In this way, they are able to achieve absolute dominance in the new sphere of virtual warfare. These events alerted China that it must quickly establish its own Internet industry, erect a secure defensive line and collaboratively respond to the new threats of the Internet through international cooperation.

The United States’ fabrication of the so-called “Chinese military hacking bureau” is like the strong bullying the weak. When it comes to accusations regarding the Internet, the U.S. has an advantage unequaled by any other nation. As the birthplace of the Internet, the U.S. controls the majority of domain name servers and boasts a great many multinational Internet companies. Currently, two-thirds of all online information flow originates from the U.S., while China’s rate of information flow output is only 0.05 percent. American companies such as Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Google and others are among the most high-end information companies and control the top of the global information chain. While the U.S. criticizes Chinese advances in “cyberterrorism,” they themselves are implementing cyberattack strategies against China at a level surpassing anyone in the whole world. Snowden’s latest discovery reveals that it is the U.S. that is the true cyberterrorist, while China has become the principle victim of cyberterrorism. This is an indisputable fact, and it is because of this that such great losses have been suffered.

Today, the Internet has become an important infrastructure used collaboratively by millions of people, and thus creating a positive online environment is in the mutual interests of the entire world. The hacking activities of the American NSA threaten the global security of the Internet. In the face of a global Internet developing with extreme inequity, those in weaker nations such as China attach great importance to their rights and make this issue a top priority. China must learn from the methods of the U.S., Russia and other nations. As soon as possible, China must formulate laws for the new sphere of the Internet, as well as respond to the offensive and defensive strategies of the Internet war. At the same time, China must swiftly transform its subpar methods of technological development and reorient itself toward a new kind of strategic industry. When conditions are sufficiently mature, China must also establish its own military division to fight this Internet war in order to strike back against the cyberterrorist attacks from outside powers.