> Aren't we all doing the same mistake when we refer to them? All we know is that the attacks came from China, so we safely assume it came from the Government?

I think the reason they see all of our institutions as one head of the same beast is that in China things really do work that way.

Of course, as parent points out, it's not completely false to see the United States that way, although our institutions collaborate in a more anarchic and haphazard fashion than the Chinese leadership may realize.