The group attacked over two dozen government agencies in Western Europe and the United States, and compromised associated personal accounts of employees.
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.
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.
Isn’t this like tantamount to a declaration of war?
Not really? Every country is spying on every other country. It’s just a big failure on our end.
If you ain’t spyin’, you ain’t tryin’.
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.
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.