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  • “But it would be very happy to see Europe tied up spending a lot of its GDP on defence against something that looks like a frozen conflict around Ukraine and Belarus,” he added.

    That contradicts China’s economic interests in Europe. They make a ton of money from exports to Europe. More money towards defence means less money for buying Chinese exports. Also given the current state of affairs in defence production, it means significant spend going to the US, which doesn’t sound like something Xi would want.











  • Wouldn’t it be in the best interests of state sponsored hacking teams to hide or blame other states?

    Of course. If I were leading an offencive team at CSIS, I’d do my best to procure machines and credentials in anorher country to launch the campaign from. Ideally a known adversary. That doesn’t mean that country isn’t executing their own attacks. In fact my charade wouldn’t work if I chose a country that has no track record of attacks.



  • "No one should be forced to pay for disinformation,” Siegmund thunders. He is the floor leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt, and he launches into a diatribe against a familiar target: Germany’s giant publicly funded broadcasters ARD and ZDF

    This is the same shit Canada’s conservative party pushes. From their recent party convention:

    The CBC/SRC, once intended to promote Canadian content, now receives over $1.2 billion annually while promoting increasingly politicized agendas. In an era of digital platforms and independent journalism, taxpayer-funded broadcasting is no longer justified