> China is less vulnerable because they can monitor their entire Internet, cut it off, and take control. Thus cyberwar is advantageous for China over the US. T

> China is less vulnerable because they can monitor their entire Internet, cut it off, and take control. Thus cyberwar is advantageous for China over the US. The US could cut off the Internet without much more difficultly than China, esp. as they would only need to pull up the drawbridges — most of the good stuff is hosted in the US anyway. I'd much rather try and sell "we had to pull up the drawbridges because of terrorists, but don't worry, youtube and facebook aren't going anywhere" to the US public than "No more communicating with the outside world" to the chinese public. In terms of monitoring, I don't think China actually has the ability to proactively filter/block attacks of this kind — since the raison d'être of their monitoring is preventing internal dissent, not external attack. As to which is more vulnerable, America might have more critical infrastructure online, but whether they are more vulnerable is anyone's guess.