by Daniel Greenfield
Defend Taiwan? We won't even defend ourselves.
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.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is
an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and
Islamic terrorism.
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/secretary-of-state-blinken-cant-discuss-response-to-china-hacking-his-emails/
No comments:
Post a Comment