Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- February 20, 2013



China's Cyber Spies Are Stealing More Than Secrets -- John Lee, The Australian

IN his February 12 State of the Union speech to congress, President Barack Obama declared that American cyber "enemies" were not just stealing identities and hacking into personal and corporate email but also acquiring the ability to hack into the country's civilian systems such as power grids, financial institutions and air traffic control infrastructure.

Then earlier this week, US cyber-security firm Mandiant released an explosive report accusing the Chinese People's Liberation Army of funding and orchestrating an extensive program of cyber-espionage against American firms. Chinese state-backed news outlets immediately labelled the report groundless, but the growing weight of evidence means that Beijing's blunt strategy of denial is becoming less plausible. And Chinese industrial cyber-espionage will soon replace barbs over currency policy as the major economic bug-bear between the two economic giants.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

China’s Cybergames -- New York Times editorial

Start Retaliating for Chinese Cyber Attacks
-- Max Boot, Commentary

How to prevent a China-Japan clash -- Mark Valencia, Special to CNN

China: US to Blame for North Korea’s Provocations
-- Gordon G. Chang, World Affairs

Syria's strategic stalemate, made worse by US inaction -- Tony Karon, The National

Iran Exposes Its Achilles’ Heel -- Michael Rubin, Commentary

Is Iran Creating a Health Crisis to Evade Sanctions? -- Reuel Marc Gerecht & Mark Dubowitz, Bloomberg

Belaïd Assassination Exposes Deep Rifts in Tunisia
-- Christoph Scheuermann, Spiegel Online

Moving past stalemate in the Middle East -- Maen Rashid Areikat, L.A. Times

How the Mossad Works: The Mystery of Israel's 'Prisoner X' -- Ulrike Putz, Spiegel Online

South Sudan On a Road to Ungovernable State -- Gabrial Pager Ajang, allAfrica.com

Two years on, Libya is barely a state - but that's good news -- Faisal Al Yafai, The National

Analysis: Core problem for Europe as France, Germany drift apart -- Alan Wheatley, Reuters

Spain and Italy: The Euro Crisis Gnaws at Europe's Underbelly -- Spiegel Online

Analysis: Berlusconi surge evokes recurring nightmare for Italy's left -- Steve Scherer, Reuters

Why have the white British left London? -- Mark Easton, BBC

Venezuela’s New Era -- Phil Gunson, Foreign Policy

Arms control: The search for a nuclear legacy -- The Economist

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