Perhaps that's true. But I think it's a valid strategy to pit China against itself instead of trying to fend off the attacks. GitHub (in my mind) is so import

Perhaps that's true. But I think it's a valid strategy to pit China against itself instead of trying to fend off the attacks. GitHub (in my mind) is so important these days to the open source movement that my hunch is there would be substantial backlash in China if their best programmers could no longer participate.