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Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China
An anonymous reader writes: "O'Reilly Developer News is reporting this morning that Taipei is under cyber attack by a Chinese 'army of hackers'. The Taipei government is saying that the attacks are trojan-horses against windows machines that are being staged to break in to government databases."
Here is the cause. Taiwan recently conducted military exercises simulating a Chinese invasion despite Chinese protests. I would imagine that this is China's response.
I've never understood this backassward logic.
It really must take a lot of brainwashing in Poly Sci class, a lot of New York Times reading, or just a lot of good old fashioned Communist sympathizing, to wrap your head around that.
You know the US is also know to abuse human rights quite a lot!
I have very basic html knowledge, which gets me by in most situations. Try reading the first response to my original post, and my response to it. No need to insult me for an honest mistake.
An honest mistake is confusing something within the scope of your knowledge. What you did is not an honest mistake. It's an ignorant, idiotic mistake. Admitting that not everybody on Slashdot is a programmer, after trying to say something is something it isn't, just proves you are an idiot.
I'm not insulting you, I'm labelling you. There is a difference. My monitor is black. You are an idiot. Same thing.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
China was never a superpower. China was a series of empires based out of similar areas. While China has five thousand years of history, the West was writing well before many Chinese were farming. When China was at its height, the empire lasted for less time than the Roman Empire. It was less well controlled than the Roman Empire as well. China never had the capability or the will to extend beyond its geographical borders.
Almost no innovation has come out of China for the past one thousand years. Pure Chinese culture is, basically, its worthless. It does not teach anything applicable to modern times. It only teaches cowardice and bullying. It teaches that the old ways are best, and anyone trying to change them should be severely punished.
Western ideas are not meaningless notions. They simply mean nothing to corrupt communist officials. Western ideals have been adopted by South Koreans, Japanese and Taiwanese. If these ideas were meaningless, all of these countries would remain dictatorships.
I encourage you to look beyond the lies you have been told by your Red Cadre peers and your drone teachers. Here is a hint: Read Bo Yang, if you aren't afraid of what you might discover.
Hoist Number One and Number Six.
Sorry, asswipe, but it ain't the Windows source code unless you can compile Windows from it.
Most likely the 'source' being given out to different governments isn't the real Windows source at all.
Taiwan is not a nation; rather, it is a province of China. About 15% of the people in Taiwan are descended from the folks who went to the island after 1949. The remaining 85% of the people in Taiwan are descended from the folks who resided on the island before 1949. Historians label the first group "Chinese" and label the latter group "Taiwanese".
However, in terms self-identification, 85% of the people in Taiwan consider themselves "Chinese". They support (eventual or immediate) unification with China. 15% of the people in Taiwan reject calling themselves "Chinese"; they consider themselves strictly "Taiwanese" and support (eventual or immediate) independence.
The key issue here is that the future of Taiwan is determined by the majority: i.e. the 85% who support the notion of "One China". Hence, the constitution of Taiwan clearly states that both Taiwan and Tibet are part of China. The Taiwanese support nearly all the geopolitical objectives of China.
What we have here is that there are 2 governments claiming to be the true government of "One China". One government is in Taipei. The other government is in Beijing. Without question, the joke is the government in Taipei. The majority of the Chinese people in China (which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan) expelled the Taiwanese government in 1949.
Shortly after the Korean government became democratic in the early 1990s, the Korean people recognized the joke in Taipei and immediately terminated relations with Taiwan and recognized the government in Beijing as the proper government of China.
The Taiwanese have made a mockery of Americans by manipulating them for more than 40 years. Please read the "Reality of Taiwan". While the Chinese army beats and kills Tibetan nuns, the Taiwanese insist that Tibet is part of "One China". The Taiwanese constitution states so, and the Taiwanese education system teaches children so. At the same time, the Taiwanese government demands that the United States of America (USA) sell weapons to it. Meanwhile mid-ranking officers retired from the Taiwanese military travel to Beijing to secure lucrative jobs in exchange for revealing the secrets of American weapons sold to Taiwan.
Enough is enough.
The time has come to end the nonsense. Let us follow the lead of the South Koreans and terminate relations with Taiwan immediately . Cancel the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) and stop selling weapons to Taiwan. Require all Taiwanese nationals to present a Beijing passport.
However, there is something that very few people know. Namely, the Taiwanese constitution, the highest law of the land in Taiwan, supports the geopolitical objectives of mainland China. Specifically, the constitution states that Tibet is part of China. The Taiwanese education system teaches children that Tibet is part of China.
While the Chinese army regularly beats, tortures, and kills Tibetan nuns, the Taiwanese insist that Tibet should be integrated into China. Meanwhile, the Taiwanese demand that the United States of America (USA) sells weapons to them. This hypocrisy is disgusting.
Furthermore, after the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, the USA and other Western countries immediately curtailed or froze investments into mainland China. The intent of these economic sanctions were thwarted by Taiwanese duplicity. How? The Taiwanese seized this window of opportunity and provided any money or technology that the Americans refused to provide. Starting from 1989, the Taiwanese circumvented the sanctions and poured investments into China. Taiwanese investments in China have grown at double digit rates and have reached the level of $50 billion in more than 50,000 businesses in mainland China.
Please read "Understanding Taiwan: Security Threat to the USA".
The USA must immediately terminate the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) and stop selling weapons to Taiwan. The time has come to end the relationship of hypocrisy with Taiwan.
The Taiwanese people support the "murderers in Beijing". The Taiwanese constitution states explicitly that Tibet belongs to China. Even though the Chinese People's Liberation Army have beaten, tortured, and killed scores of Tibetan women and children, the Taiwanese still insist that Tibet is an integral part of China.
Look back at the Tienanmen Square incident in 1989. Americans were shocked at the bloodshed and immediately curtailed or froze investments into mainland China in an attempt to punish the Beijing government. The Taiwanese people exploited this situation and rapidly provided, to the Beijing government, any money or technology that the Americans refused to provide. From 1989, Taiwanese investment into mainland China skyrocketed to the present level of $50 billion in more than 50,000 businesses in mainland China. In short, the Taiwanese completely thwarted the Western economic sanctions against China.
Please read "Reality of Taiwan".
The Chinese have been grateful to the Taiwanese and give them preferential treatment when they conduct business in China. Americans do not enjoy such preferential treatment. Indeed, the Chinese government punishes American business and destroys thousands of potential American jobs whenever the American government sells weapons to Taiwan. While the Taiwanese demand that the American government sell weapons to them, those same Taiwanese (1) thwart American economic sanctions promoting human rights in China and (2) support the integration of Tibet into China. This behavior is absolutely disgusting.
Let us call an end to this nonsense known as Taiwan. The American government should immediately terminate the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) and stop selling weapons to Taiwan. Every Taiwanese should be required to produce a Beijing passport when they are applying for a visa to the United States of America.
Please read "Understanding Taiwan: Security Threat to the USA".
Please read "Reality of Taiwan".
As for a specific example, the Chinese son of the chairman of a powerful conglomerate in Taiwan has joined with the son of Jiang Zemin, the butcher of Tibet, to build an advanced silicon-wafer factory in Shanghai, according to "Sons of prominent Chinese team up on chip venture".
Taiwanese support for China does not merely stop there. The Taiwanese support all the geopolitical objectives of mainland China. Specifically, the Taiwanese constitution says that Tibet is an integral part of China. While the Taiwanese demand that Americans sell them weapons, the Taiwanese insist on integrating Tibet into China. This hypocrisy is disgusting.
In conclusion, boycott products made anywhere in China. Specifically, boycott products made in Taiwan. Let us in the Slashdot community petition the American government to terminate the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) and to stop sales of all weapons to Taiwan. In exchange for the termination of the TRA, Beijing should reciprocate by granting autonomy to Tibet.
Please read "Understanding Taiwan: Security Threat to the USA".