Re:China Telecom diverted internet traffic in U.S. and Canad...
by pluma on Friday November 02, 2018 @08:55AM
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No, the question is this:
The US is doing certain things that seem outrageous.
The US is supposedly an ally of my country.
China is not explicitly an ally (just a trade partner).
So if the US spies on us, that's scandalous but it significantly lowers the bar for what I expect our non-allies to do to us.
It's not whataboutism, it's a precedent by which all future actions are measured. I'm not discounting the news story, I'm asking whether this is just a news story that will be forgotten about in a few weeks or so, or whether this is a total shift in expectations like when we found out what the US was doing to its own allies.
The US is doing certain things that seem outrageous.
The US is supposedly an ally of my country.
China is not explicitly an ally (just a trade partner).
So if the US spies on us, that's scandalous but it significantly lowers the bar for what I expect our non-allies to do to us.
It's not whataboutism, it's a precedent by which all future actions are measured. I'm not discounting the news story, I'm asking whether this is just a news story that will be forgotten about in a few weeks or so, or whether this is a total shift in expectations like when we found out what the US was doing to its own allies.