'Spying' claim a thief-crying-stop-thief farce

An official US bulletin claims that foreign entities were trying to gain access to its space industry. Even more absurd is a US "counterintelligence official" targeting "leading threats" like China and Russia.

In their two-page bulletin, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations claimed they had found some techniques foreign entities were using in order to gain access to their space industry, namely "cyberattacks" and "strategic investment through joint ventures and acquisitions".

However, the fact remains the US is the biggest source of cyberattacks in the world. According to a report of the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center in Sept 2022, the Office of Tailored Access Operations affiliated to the US National Security Agency had launched thousands of attacks against China's Northwestern Polytechnical University via 41 tools. More reports from Europe and elsewhere show that the US had attacked its allies and friends alike in the virtual world.

The US has so strongly restricted Chinese capital and Chinese technological firms that Chinese companies would never dream of entering the US technological sector. Supply restrictions have hit Huawei and TikTok, just because it has a Chinese parent company, badly. So how can Chinese ventures invest in the highly confidential US space sector?

Further, the US space sector is not as lucrative as before. On Aug 8, NASA officials claimed that the Artemis 3 moon mission might not involve an astronaut landing on the moon, while China has long raised plans of sending astronauts to the moon, even to Mars. So is there anything left in the US space sector that is worth hacking?

On Monday, the Ministry of National Security published details of a spying case directed by the CIA, which is the second such one in the past 20 days. So who is spying on whom and crying "catch thief"?