Think of China like a business with a lot of companies under them. China is that way, in a sense, and they keep telling countries of their world and businesses, customers, “Hey, we are untrustworthy, we are shady, if we get a chance, we will stab you in the back”.

Hello? India?

China has to stay competitive for their own survival. If Nabisco or Pepsi-Cola was caught in such a scandal, would that help them or hurt them?

That China will continue to do this… sure. But it is more pressure on them to stop. Pressure builds. Like a cooker.

Further, their own people do see this sort of behavior. They are not dumb. There are surely many, if not all, who know it is bad and want a better system of government. Historically, such people have led change in totalitarian or otherwise backwards governments… and historically, they have woken up from just such exposures, wake up calls.

Nabisco, Pepsi, whoever does such a thing they have to stop. The law would be on them. Customers would boycott. China is different. “Above the law” or so they think.

China is literally giving any possible competitor in any of their markets an edge by engaging in this insanity.

Think about it.

Anyway, seriously. Hacking human rights people? What is that? I guess they can say, “Oh everybody does it, so we can do it too”. But do they? Might that not be paranoid, delusional self-justifications. I tell my kids, “Don’t think like that”. I am proud to have such wisdom. It is something that makes a man.

Isn’t that of value?

As for unfair criticism… does it hurt western nations? If the critics are peaceful and genuinely not advocating violence, or gee whiz, something like hacking one’s “enemies”, so what? If their arguments are without merit, some may be fooled, some of the time. If they are valid though — and isn’t that what really scares those hardliners? Valid criticisms? Truth?

Why else do totalitarian nations censor and free nations do not? Because of truth and its’ power. Same with a cult or any delusional system that wants to control people, where people give up their control.

People should no longer give up their minds, their hearts to people worse then them. This is the twentieth first century. Learn from our mistakes, for once.

Maybe it is because the Chinese have not made the same mistakes we have here in the West they do these things? If so, that is sad. We have made mistakes, we have with hard work and a lot of blood corrected them, and we are moving on.

It would be nice if China would clean up their act and join us — as I think the very vast majority of their people already do.

Google is naive, as are these other companies. This was an attack which was *caught*. How do they know there have not been successful attacks before or even current which were not caught??

China’s strategies here in hacking companies, especially foreign ones, and governments is very short sighted. I do not see it as typical Chinese thinking at all. It is completely counter-productive to their own nation’s best interests.

The same holds true with their continuing work at censorship.

Taking steps towards freeing up their country has been what has enabled their country to finally have competitive, international success of some measure.

It is not that China is incapable of competing. It is that they hold themselves back by willfully keeping corruption. That sort of corruption is not good. It is corruption. Bad thing. *Think, people*.

Nobody wants to be enemies.

Why spend the money to innovate when you can just rip everything off?

This seems to be a pretty standard practice nowadays when it comes to the PRC and their dealings with western companies..