'China has almost doubled their aggression in cyber’, experts say

Today, Western governments have been more outspoken in linking China to cyber attacks and sanctioned organizations linked to malicious cyber activity. Despite this growing awareness of the threat posed by China-backed groups, … people still don’t have a firm grasp on the extent to which China has infiltrated enterprise systems …

That’s an absurdly bad take to justify whataboutism.

when the USA does the same shit, if not worse, and just as blatantly, no one cares.

This is outright false. Just the most recent post in this community is about the NSA spying on air-gapped networks. And there is an awful lot more news on Lemmy criticizing the US, EU, or other Western democracies. (However, there’s no whataboutism in these cases. Why?)

As I asked already in this thread: Why is it that whenever one posts something critical of China here on Lemmy, there is some commentary arguing that the US is doing the same? I don’t understand that.

That’s whataboutery back and forth.

… criticised the practice of sharing vulnerability discoveries internationally, arguing that such strategic assets should stay within China.

A 2018 rule mandates participants of the Tianfu Cup to hand over their findings to the government, instead of the tech companies.

Which countries do have something similar to a ‘Tianfu Cup?’

Not that I think wiretapping is a good thing (it’s very bad, no matter who does it), but why is it that whenever one posts something critical of China here on Lemmy, there is some commentary arguing that the US is doing the same? I don’t understand that. US wiretapping doesn’t make this Chinese policy better.

[Edit to correct a typo.]