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The US has engaged in its fair share of spying, exemplified by the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs that came to light in 2013.
Indeed, he stressed multiple times that the spying revealed by Snowden’s disclosures was “lawful.”
China, for its part, claims that the US is guilty of equally egregious violations – widespread cyber spying on international leaders, trade negotiators, and foreign firms.
This is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle returning from its mission: not hunting down terrorists or spying on foreign lands, but monitoring populations of rhinos and scouting for tiger poachers.
In the case of Indonesia’s reaction to former US intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden’s revelations of Australian spying on its first family, a personal apology from Prime Minister Tony Abbott would have made all the difference.
It comes after a series of recent blows to that regime, including: reports that China may be planning to expand and modernize its strategic nuclear arsenal by using information obtained through spying on America; second, the successful test by the US a few weeks ago of a prototype national missile defense (NMD) system; third, reports that India and Pakistan are proceeding to "weaponize" their nuclear arsenals (meaning that the intend to mate their bombs with delivery vehicles); fourth, the recommendation to the Indian government that it create forces to sustain a policy of nuclear deterrence; and, fifth, the takeover of Pakistan by armed forces favoring a hardline with India.
China adds that if the US deploys anti-nuclear defenses in Asia to protect Taiwan and Japan, as America threatens to do, China will have to build up its offense nuclear arsenal -- perhaps making use of information that China obtained from the US through spying.
The fruits of spying are not very useful to China, but the combination of spying and testing could be.
One can add many other US actions, including drone strikes on the territory of sovereign states without their governments’ permission; covert military operations; renditions and torture of terror suspects; and massive spying by the US National Security Agency.
How could it justify spying on a leader who is among America’s closest allies in NATO and in the Afghanistan mission – a leader whom he invited to the Rose Garden to bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor that America can give to a foreigner?
An exaggerated sense of lost glory helped incite the French Army to fake the evidence that convicted Captain Alfred Dreyfus of spying for the Kaiser.
Meanwhile, Rousseff canceled a state visit to Washington in protest over the US National Security Agency’s alleged spying on Brazilian political and business leaders, including Rousseff herself.
The Spying GameMELBOURNE – Thanks to Edward Snowden, I now know that the US National Security Agency is spying on me.
We know that our government is spying not just on foreigners; it is also spying on us.
Personally, I am reluctantly willing to accept the US government spying on people, especially foreigners, as long as it is constrained by rules that are public and enforced.
Paranoia, informers, and domestic spying are so essential to Communist rule that few people are ever surprised at the extent of secret police operations here.
Still, domestic spying did not arrive in China either with the computer revolution or Mao's Communist one.
Indeed, the darkest moments in China's long history often coincide with massive domestic spying systems; usually these herald not only renewed tyranny but instability as well.
The Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek believed in domestic spying as well, and practiced it both before and after the Communist takeover of 1949, with Chiang's spies harshly suppressing any and all signs of domestic dissent.
Only the flowering of Taiwan's democracy in recent years saw a decrease in domestic spying.
Mao, indeed, called domestic spying "an invisible magic weapon."
Such spying is necessary, says Jiang, in order to uphold the "stability" of Communist rule in the face of vast and unsettling economic reforms.
Like Saturn devouring his children, however, Chinese spying devours Central Committee members and dissidents alike.
Since the era of Emperor Cheng Zu's Dong Chang domestic spying has been a sign of insecurity, not self-confidence.
Domestic spying is growing and taking new forms nowadays because China's leaders, unsettled by the changes their own economic reforms have unleashed, bluntly refuse to consider democratic reforms.
Jiang's increasing dependence on internal spying and the "security apparatus" may also be due to Jiang's close relations with his confidante Zeng Qinghong, the son of Zeng Shan, who was Minister of the Interior in charge of domestic espionage in the earliest days of Communist rule.
Instead of slackening domestic spying in order to prepare the Chinese people for the ever increasing personal responsibility that a modern economy demands, however, Jiang remains obsessed only with maintaining Communist and personal power.
America’s Strategic BlindnessMADRID – The recriminations over US spying activities, triggered by the revelations of the former American intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden, have now reached fever pitch.
The current spying scandal is the product of a rudderless US foreign policy focused on narrowly drawn tactical objectives that exist outside the conceptual funnel of a comprehensive vision.
Soon after that, a Huawei employee was involved in a spying scandal in Poland, and the company has also been accused of other cases of espionage.
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