>>>The whole China-spying ruckus is, if you actually read the Cox report, a huge amount of inflammatory talk based on very shaky grounds.<<<
There are basicially three groups of people creating this ugly climate.
First, there are the auditor, security types, and control freaks. They have gone bananas citing windows are open, unlocked doors, drunken security guards, misguided tour guides, and lack of computer security procedures at the National laboratories run by a culture of arrogant scientists.
Can you just see it now, a Chinese Scientist on a guided tour of a national laboratory facility sneaking by a drunken security guard, past an unlocked door, climbs in through an open window, and rifles some files to steal nuclear secretes before getting back on the tour?
Second, there is the New York Times, who feel that any country that is not friendly to Isreal (BTW I am personally pro Isreal), is an enemy of the United States and has to be trashed by Abe Rosenthal and Bill Safire every chance it can get - even if they have to manufacture issues and slander by innuendo. They were the ones that reported the Wen Ho Lee case from leaked or stolen information that had very little substance to begin with. Very few other news organizations do much of their own news gathering. They rewrite what appears in the New York Times.
Third, there are quite a number of pure racist who use the human rights cover to promote racial fear and hatred. How many of these human rights advocates really care about the legitimate human rights of the ordinary Chinese people?
We are in the process of demonizing 1.2 billion people. This could be tragic. |
