A report on the Chinese cyber-threat is the focus of an article in The Financial Times, that uses as its basis a paper by John Tkacik, senior research fellow at the Asian Studies Center of the Heritage Foundation on the Chinese cyberthreat. The article notes the study highlights a list of security breaches that will make worrying reading for US policymakers, even if exaggerated. This is particularly so because of the size of their internet populations in both the US and China and that “the US and China will be each other’s biggest strategic rival in the future.”The article also says “the threat to peace from US-China rivalry in cyberspace is significant for two reasons.” These are “the US expects to maintain overwhelming military dominance in the Pacific and around the world for at least a generation, but only because of its technological lead and its ability to “see” and control the battlefield electronically from space and from the air” and “planners assume that future wars will involve cyber-attacks to cripple the enemy’s entire society by disabling electricity, communications and banking networks.”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ca5cb050-6eb7-11dd-a80a-0000779fd18c.htmlThe report, Trojan Dragon: China’s Cyber Threat, by John J. Tkacik, Jr.is available from:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/bg2106.cfm.
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