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Which US enemy did he stand up for?
by notdrunkatall 13y ago
Which US enemy did he stand up for?
- tome 13y agoChina specifically, by providing examples of US hacking against Chinese targets.
- betterunix 13y agoChina is an enemy? When last I checked, there was no embargo on Chinese goods, no risk to US planes flying over China (nor Chinese planes flying over the US), no risk to US vessels in Chinese waters (at least from the Chinese government), no risk to our satellites from the Chinese army, etc. By comparison, look at Iran or North Korea -- there are embargoes, swords rattling, occasion bullets flying, and so forth.
- notdrunkatall 13y agoEven if we consider China an enemy, that's not "standing up for an enemy," that's telling China that one of their universities is being spied on. Not a big surprise, and little damage done. And I very much doubt that was done to aid our "enemy," but to help galvanize Snowden's status in the eyes of the Chinese people, which would in turn weigh on the government's decision whether or not to cooperate with the USA's extradition request. And it worked.