I am not sure; Here they say that CISCO also down in Brasil, Mexico, India and Russia

http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/11/14/nsa-spying-cr...

I guess because of these sophisticated man in the middle attacks that the NSA is doing lately; I guess one has to fiddle a lot with BGP routing tables for these ...

What I don't understand is: why are Chinese routers supposed to be more secure? absurd!