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China Wants Cyber Crisis Hotline

Posted by samzenpus on from the hello-we're-hacking-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "China should look at establishing a cyber crisis hotline with the United States, according to a Chinese newspaper seen as a window into official thinking. Discussions about a crisis hotline might seem an obvious first step in improving relations. But if it's a sign the Chinese government is beginning to think about how to coordinate a rapid, unified response to cyber emergencies, then it is an extremely important one."

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  1. Why? by jgotts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why should the US government aid the Chinese surveillance state any more than it already does? If there is hacktivism going on against China then so be it. China would do well freeing its political prisoners, such as the Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, and then it can ask for cyber help from the US.

    1. Re:Why? by timeOday · · Score: 5, Insightful
      I don't see why you interpret this as a US-based helpdesk China could call for assistance.

      I interpret it more like the cold-war Moscow/Washington "red telephone," the idea being that if bilateral conflict seems at risk of spiraling out of control, there is some mechanism to communicate and hopefully pull back from the brink of mutual harm.

  2. With all that China has done towards the US... by sethstorm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...their government departments(including nominally private organizations like Huawei) and any company's assets within China all deserve to be compromised.

    Of course, this won't sit well with the China apologists that will (inevitably) modbomb this - just that China gets too many passes than it really deserves.

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    1. Re:With all that China has done towards the US... by LordLucless · · Score: 4, Insightful

      just that China gets too many passes than it really deserves.

      Depends what you mean by "deserves". It get passes because it's large, rich, and still growing. It gets them because the US is afraid of pissing it off. It's pretty much the same reason the US has received special consideration from so many other governments in the past. As far as "deserves" (a subjective judgement) can be objectively analyzed, it deserves them because it is sufficiently large and powerful to demand them - which is all that matters when it comes to international politics.

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