Rapid Fire August 20, 2013: Chimerica Cyber-Lying to Itself

• China’s military officials are not even pretending to be credible when they state that they “oppose of taking use of information and technology to conduct any kind of operation and hostility towards another party in the cyber domain”, but given recent revelations about the extent of the NSA’s activities, the Chinese have a point when they denounce double standards (implicitly, from the US) in such matters. The two countries are quite obviously both victim and perpetrator. What is this ongoing hypocrisy supposed to accomplish?