The US may have had enough of Chinese hackers snooping around its state departments and privately-owned companies

Sep 1, 2015 11:32 GMT  ·  By
China may face economical sanctions from the US because of recent cyber-attacks
   China may face economical sanctions from the US because of recent cyber-attacks

The United States government seems to have had enough of Chinese-linked hackers snooping around its internal affairs and is currently mulling economic sanctions on the Beijing government.

This possible course of action was revealed to AFP (Agence France-Presse) reporters by a senior administration official on Monday.

The Washington insider was quoted of saying that the US government would respond to these recent Chinese hacks "in a manner and timeframe of our choosing."

While there are several cases reported in the past when Chinese hackers were linked to data breaches inside US-based companies, the theft of intellectual property has not motivated the US government enough to take any kind of actions before.

But due to a series of recent attacks that targeted official US departments that resulted in the theft of personal and sensitive data from millions of US citizens and government personnel, for the first time in its history, the Washington government is thinking about taking severe economic actions against its main economic competitor.

The US may have all of a sudden forgotten what the NSA was doing

While the US NSA program and its affinity for spying on the Japanese, French and German governments is not lost to us, it certainly is on the Washington regime.

Ironically, the state that carried out the most intense spying campaign since World Word II and the Cold War is now "mad" at being the target of one.

In the past, the same accusations that the Chinese government is under now were also addressed to the US government, many states, including China, blaming US state agencies of hacking into their servers.

To their defense, US government officials said many times that if they were behind these cyber attacks, the data would not be spread with US companies so they could get an edge on the market.

This statement has some truth to it since there are documented cases of Chinese companies mysteriously coming up with new product lines overnight, which broke several patents held by US companies.

We will continue to follow this ongoing topic and post updates if the US government decides to act and impose economic sanctions on China. Since these two countries are the world's two biggest economies and China is recently going through an economic crisis, these sanctions, if implemented, have the potential to bring parts of the Chinese economy to its knees.