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dipsydoodle

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Mon Apr 16, 2012, 07:18 PM Apr 2012

US and China engage in cyber war games

Source: Guardian

The US and China have been discreetly engaging in "war games" amid rising anger in Washington over the scale and audacity of Beijing-co-ordinated cyber attacks on western governments and big business, the Guardian has learned.

State department and Pentagon officials, along with their Chinese counterparts, were involved in two war games last year that were designed to help prevent a sudden military escalation between the sides if either felt they were being targeted. Another session is planned for May.

Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.

"China has come to the conclusion that the power relationship has changed, and it has changed in a way that favours them," said Jim Lewis, a senior fellow and director at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) thinktank in Washington.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/16/us-china-cyber-war-games

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US and China engage in cyber war games (Original Post) dipsydoodle Apr 2012 OP
They learned and was taught by the best Corporations lovuian Apr 2012 #1
"...it has changed in a way that favours them,..." unkachuck Apr 2012 #2

lovuian

(19,362 posts)
1. They learned and was taught by the best Corporations
Mon Apr 16, 2012, 08:50 PM
Apr 2012

and US Universities....the Corporations looking for cheap workers
didn't realize the workers stole their patents and secrets

they open factories in China and undercut them in prices

thats called Capitalism

unchecked Capitalism ....and they have a nuclear arsenal and military army
to say screw you America and New World Order

CEOS made millions of bonuses but now the US companies have been destroyed

soon it will be China Corporations running the New World Order

The US government better get with it

 

unkachuck

(6,295 posts)
2. "...it has changed in a way that favours them,..."
Mon Apr 16, 2012, 09:34 PM
Apr 2012

....we've got to learn to treat the bank that holds our paper with more patience and respect....they're just practicing for our default or world war three....

....what's a little 'state-sponsored espionage and theft' amongst friends?

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