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Re:Chinese hacking spree hit an ‘astronomical’ number of vic... by cameronh90 on Saturday March 06, 2021 @01:53PM (#26369563)
Is anyone really of the view that most Chinese are evil? I don't think that's what calling them a hostile nation is meant to mean.

The problem is that the Chinese government, who ARE hostile, take advantage of the fact that we treat most Chinese as non-hostile. Nobody knows how many Chinese students and workers in the West are essentially spies for the Chinese government, but we do know it is enough to be worried about.

I'm not sure what we can do about that but I don't think we can pretend it's not an issue.

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Re:Chinese hacking spree hit an ‘astronomical’ number of vic... by Aunche on Saturday March 06, 2021 @02:15PM (#26369712)
>Nobody knows how many Chinese students and workers in the West are essentially spies for the Chinese government

But we do know how many of them are contributing domestically. A growing percentage of American PHD graduates came from China and the vast majority of them are planning to stay.

https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CSET-Trends-i...

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Re:Chinese hacking spree hit an ‘astronomical’ number of vic... by chrischen on Saturday March 06, 2021 @05:55PM (#26371280)
If you believe that most Chinese citizens are in support of their government then calling the government evil is an indirect attack on them. If you don’t believe the Chinese support their government then that’s an entirely different topic you may have to educate yourself on.
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Re:Chinese hacking spree hit an ‘astronomical’ number of vic... by smolder on Sunday March 07, 2021 @03:00AM (#26374122)
Yes, I'm sure every workers' love of the CCP is genuine... Actually, their outward support is partly a function of how well the government treats them and partly a function of pressure to conform, of which there is quite a lot in China.
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Re:Chinese hacking spree hit an ‘astronomical’ number of vic... by adolph on Saturday March 06, 2021 @02:53PM (#26370014)
Maybe the word evil should be thought of as “characterized by a value system of sufficient difference as to be in conflict with our own, either mutually or asymmetrically.”
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