The thousands of U.S. cyber attacks against China recently revealed by the Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) and internet security company Qihoo 360 involved private sector, government and military infrastructure, educational, research and technology-related outfits and amounted to the theft of 140 gigabytes of valuable data. Like preceding revelations, it has exposed the U.S.’s hypocritical double standards. The U.S.’s accusations against China, of both defense-related and industrial espionage, are just another instance of “the pot calling the kettle black,” that is accusing others, in this case, the shiny and clean kettle, of precisely what you, the blacked pot, are guilty of.
