Am I wrong? I read George Jahn’s Associated Press piece about spies on Yahoo.com, and got the idea that the author/editor was complaining. “Emerging giants such as China pose different threats as they use the most sophisticated cyber technology to snoop on established world powers.”
Does the CIA snoop? What kind of threats does China pose? In fact, what kind of threat does the US pose to China? Using the word SNOOP paints a picture of some pervert hiding in the bushes at night watching you undress through your window. I also question the use of the term “established world powers”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhXw-2aqJ3E
Study history and you discover that power shifts all the time. China was an established world power for more than two thousand years until the West got the upper hand during the 19th century. America didn’t become an established world power until after World War II and keeping that status has come at a steep price.
At one time, China was the established world power and nations like France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Great Britain and the United States were the emerging powers that posed threats to China and the price China paid for that assault was terrible. Now that China is on the way back, the nations that challenged China less than two centuries ago are complaining.
Interesting. I thought all was fair in love and war for both sides.
See The First Emperor: The Man Who Made China
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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