• Odusei@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Not really? Every country is spying on every other country. It’s just a big failure on our end.

    • drdiddlybadger@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      Nah, only because everyone is doing that to everyone else that they can, china is an particular target for the west at large. War declaration would be any attacks on infrastructure and production. Then there’s skin in the game and you can’t say you were just looking.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Beyond the “the US does it too, non-responses”, it’s very unlikely we have solid proof the group that hacked the state department was directly linked the the Chinese Government. Were they? Probably, but you don’t burn diplomatic bridges on possibilities.