Consider formal US position is attack on critical infra is comparable to physical attack, with associated retaliation. IMO cyberwarfare is small stopgap escalat

Consider formal US position is attack on critical infra is comparable to physical attack, with associated retaliation. IMO cyberwarfare is small stopgap escalation step before mass mutual homeland strikes. US has communicated potential of hitting mainland targets in event of TW contingency, hence PRC need to be able to reciprocate. In which case equation is about who has most industrial expertise and construction overcapacity to recover fastest. And who has most targets to tank hits and survive the homeland attrition game. Regardless, wonder what the state of domestic PRC industrial control systems is in terms of adoption, and whether US has sufficient familiarity. Mandarin fluency is severely lacking in US 3 letter agencies. PRC has just a metric fuck ton of surplus hackers and familiarity with western ICS having imported a lot of western infra over the years. But then again, PRC is also uniquely vunerable with how cashless society has become. Maybe they have huge stashes of rmb notes for when payment infra goes dark.