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Another lesson in smart power from the great minds that brought us the Clinton and Obama administrations.
It’s bad enough when they let our enemies beat up the country as a whole, but in this case Communist China personally targeted Secretary of State Blinken and top Biden administration officials. You would like to think that they would have some dignity and self-respect, but that’s obviously a non-starter in the face of the enemy.
Hackers linked to Beijing accessed the email account of the U.S. ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, in an attack that is believed to have compromised at least hundreds of thousands of individual U.S. government emails, according to people familiar with the matter.
The contours of the campaign aren’t fully known. Though limited to unclassified emails, the inboxes of Burns and Kritenbrink could have allowed the hackers to glean insights into U.S. planning for a recent string of visits to China by senior Biden administration officials, as well as internal conversations about U.S. policies toward its rival amid a period of delicate diplomacy that has been challenged repeatedly in recent months.
Burns and Kritenbrink are the second and third senior Biden administration officials to be identified in news reports as having their emails hacked. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo’s email account was also compromised in the breach, U.S. officials have said.
The Chinese cyberattack apparently tried but failed to penetrate Blinken’s account or his common sense.
Secretary of State Blinken learned that China had tried to hack his emails a day before he was set to visit Beijing, and he chose to go ahead with the trip without making any public mention of it, not wanting to spoil the photo op. The previous scheduling of the trip had been bumped because of China’s spy balloon and Blinken chose to demonstrate to the enemy that no amount of abusive behavior was going to stop the Biden administration’s appeasement.
But don’t worry, Blinken had something to say to China.
Blinken “raised” the matter with Wang, and “made clear that any action that targets US government, US companies, US citizens is a big concern and we’ll respond appropriately,” a second senior State Department official said.
The official said they would not “get into the specifics” of the extent to which the hack was raised in Blinken’s meeting with Wang in Jakarta, nor would they characterize the US or Chinese response.
“We have consistently made clear that any action that targets US government, US companies, American citizens, is a deep concern to us and that we will take appropriate action to hold those responsible accountable and the secretary made that clear again tonight,” the official said.
Lots was doubtlessly “made clear again”. There are no specifics because there’s nothing to specify. And internally it’s business as usual.
Rob Joyce, the cybersecurity director at the National Security Agency, added that the hack amounted to a “fairly traditional threat” that the U.S. government is always confronting.
“It is China doing espionage,” Joyce said. “That is what nation-states do. We need to defend against it, we need to push back on it, but that is something that happens.”
Zero outrage, zero response and total surrender.
China hacks us, we’ve become conditioned to treat it as normal and do nothing about it except to try and bolster our defenses. Defend Taiwan? We won’t even defend ourselves.
The vast majority of hacking is done internally by autistic programmers who have been convinced that they are doing the right thing.
Was this a Chinese immigrant?
I read stories of people escaping from china but it doesn’t seem to be hard to “escape” there’s millions of Chinese people in every town and city in every country in the world.
I hope I’m wrong because it would be easy for the Chinese to impose their communist ideology from within.
And by the end of the lecture Wang had been thoroughly chastised, and the spit shine Blinken had applied to Wang’s riding boots looked a foot deep.
That Blinken is doing a bangup job. Everyone notices and envies us.
We need to ramp up weapons production, so we can supply our allies with the means to defend themselves.
Excuses excuse excuses that all we get from Liberal Democrats
I notice Xi just stands there and forces Blinken to mince up to him in supplication.
These Beijing Biden cabinet members have no idea how to be men. Except for ones like that Susan Rice dude. But he’s only a man in appearance.
Exactly right. I notice body language (not expertly, but I notice). Mr. Greenfield chooses great photos that reveal those little crystal moments of expression. Notice Xi’s elbow is still by his side and he stands unmoving, eyes slightly down (disdain) with mouth closed and unsmiling. Blinken’s posture is one of hurried appeasement, legs rushing forward, mouth open speaking words of peace no doubt.
Love him or hate him, Trump’s body language is total domination male power. He is beautiful as our president. And so entertaining!
Exactly! And I’m sure you noticed that Trump dominated every room of foreigners he was in as President. The G-8 Summit, Saudi Arabia, wherever, all the greasy foreigners deferred to him. People sense when a man comes into the room, just like they sense a bitch like Blinken.
Thanks Jeff & KH
Xi is big for a Chinese guy, isn’t he?
Yeah, he’s tall for a Ching Chong. It’s one of the reasons he’s the leader there. The Chinks admire physical size.
And I don’t care who I piss off for using slurs against Chinese. I could boast of how many Chinese chicks I’ve been with but I don’t need to. All I need to write is that an ethnic Chinese chick I brutally dumped 26 years ago is still my friend and she considers me her favorite. So haw!
I know you wouldn’t criticize me, AA but there are some touchy people on this comment board.
I hate China, not all its people.
This administration is only willing to use force when————-its against citizens of the United States of America.
The Nobles have always despised the Commons. Only the names and faces have changed, never the story.