Biden Woefully Weak in Confronting Chinese, Russian Cyberattacks; Biden: No Sanctions on China Because It’s Only Protecting Hackers Who Attack America, and related stories

By admin On Jul 25, 2021

Biden woefully weak in confronting Chinese, Russian cyberattacks:

On Monday, the Biden administration formally blamed China for a massive cyberattack against Microsoft’s email software that impacted tens of thousands of U.S. businesses, government offices, and schools.

In response to this attack, the Biden administration opted for the “name and shame” approach by calling out China and publicizing an advisory list of more than 50 different tactics used by China’s hackers to target the United States. You can imagine how shaken Xi Jinping and the dictatorship were by being “named and shamed.” They will accept that swap of action for words every day.

During Monday’s press conference, President Joe Biden revealed how weakly he is responding to the real threat of cyberwarfare – and how he fundamentally misunderstands what we are up against.

Speaking at the press conference, President Biden said, “The Chinese government, not unlike the Russian government, is not doing this themselves, but are protecting those who are doing it and maybe even accommodating them being able to do it.”

First, let’s be clear: citing senior officials, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that “The U.S. government has high confidence that hackers tied to the Ministry of State Security, or MSS, carried out the unusually indiscriminate hack of Microsoft Exchange Server software that emerged in March.” China’s Ministry of State Security is the equivalent of a combined CIA and FBI that is under the control of the Chinese Communist Party (whose power supersedes the government). There is no systematic activity happening in China that is against the wishes of Xi and the Chinese Communist Party. The western idea of separation between public and private spheres simply does not exist. —>READ MORE HERE

Biden: No Sanctions on China Because It’s Only Protecting Hackers Who Attack America:

Biden was always bad at it, but the situation has only grown worse over time. And sometimes he’s so bad at coping with the spin that he tells something that suspiciously resembles the truth.

Take Biden’s response to a question about why China isn’t being sanctioned despite being blamed for the Microsoft hack.

Q Mr. President, on China and cyber hacking… effectively, your administration is naming and shaming China, but no sanctions. Why? And is that effective enough?

BIDEN: They’re still determining exactly what happened. The investigation is not finished.

Thank you all very much.

Q On China real quick — on China real quick: What is your understanding of the biggest difference between what they’ve done versus what Russia has done in terms of cyber hacking?

BIDEN: That’d take a longer explanation.

Q We have all the time in the world. What is it?

BIDEN: No, we don’t. I have to go see the King of Jordan.

Look, to the best of my knowledge — and I’m getting a report tomorrow morning on this, a detailed report — my understanding is that the Chinese government, not unlike the Russian government, is not doing this themselves, but are protecting those who are doing it and maybe even accommodating them being able to do it. That may be the difference. —>READ MORE HERE