China has far more to lose in any kind of war with the USA than does Russia, but, it doesn't matter. We need to protect ourselves from the communists. It is silly to attempt to differentiate a hack from a spy operation. Both are sanctioned by the Russian government.
By Tommy Beer
President Donald Trump (click here) finally broke his public silence Saturday concerning the massive cyber strike perpetrated on the United States, but downplayed its severity and— repudiating his own high-level intelligence officials and the U.S. Secretary of State— claimed that China may be responsible for the attack instead of Russia, which he has traditionally been loath to ever criticize....
By Ellen Nakashima and Shane Harris
On a late July day in 2016, (click here) Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president, stood at a lectern in Florida, next to an American flag, and urged a U.S. adversary to become involved in the election campaign and find tens of thousands of emails wiped from the server of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
“Russia, if you’re listening,” he said at a news conference at one of his resorts, “I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”
That same day, July 27, several Russian government hackers launched an attack against the email accounts of staffers in Clinton’s personal office, according to a sweeping indictment Friday by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. At or around the same time, the hackers also targeted 76 email addresses used by the Clinton campaign, investigators said....
The two countries of communists haven't really been friends of the USA, even after Nixon. The Chinese were naive about capitalism when Nixon came to visit and they became addicted to it with the permission of their government. But, as of today the Chinese capitalists, regardless of their wealth do not completely direct their wealth so much as the government.
Russia is the same way, especially today and since the fall of the Soviet Union. Under Putin's leadership, Russia went from a friend of the West to a return of the old communist regime with the invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine. That back-peddling occurred in Russia because Putin needed the old communists still in power to win an election. Since that election, there have been more and more receding freedoms in Russia as a promise to the communists by Putin. The receding freedoms are now complete with the isolation of Russia from foreign engagement, hence a return to the G-7.
There have been leaders in both countries that had achieved friends with the USA and openness that led to increased trade.
Hu Jintao of China saw the first Chinese Olympics, I believe it was Beijing.
Boris Yeltsin and the great Mikhail Gorbachev were infamous for reaching peaceful terms with the USA. I can't say the current leaders of either country have achieved any level of peace, but, more the opposite, aggressive military tactics to assault the democracy of the USA.
So, in the years 2016 and now entering 2021 there are high tensions between the USA and China and Russia. China and Russia are allies. There really isn't any reason to differentiate between the two.
Beijing - China on Monday denied that two Canadian citizens (click here) held for almost two years had been "arbitrarily" detained in response to Canada's arrest of an executive of technology giant Huawei.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian's denial came days after China granted consular access to Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor for the first time since January. Canada's government on Saturday issued a statement saying it remains "deeply concerned by the arbitrary detention by Chinese authorities" of the two, and called for their immediate release.
Zhao said China "firmly opposes the erroneous statements made by Canada" and reiterated its claim that Kovrig and Spavor were "suspected of engaging in activities that endanger China's national security."...
