A Boo for Hu

China’s cyber-spies spread their net
Published: September 3 2007

Computer hacking seems to have become yet another Chinese growth industry. A few days after developments suggesting Chinese hackers had compromised German government computer systems, the FT reports on Monday that the Pentagon was forced to close down part of its unclassified computer system in June after it was penetrated by hackers apparently from the People’s Liberation Army.

These follow reported cyber-espionage attempts by Chinese hackers against other governments, including the UK’s.

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The bad guy is you know Hu
Andrew Bolt
September 07, 2007

ARE these shouty protesters - and their sock puppets in the media - sure they've got the right guy in their sights?

Let me check again what tomorrow's big Stop Bush 2007 rally outside Sydney's APEC meeting is demanding.

Hmm. Foreign troops out. Defend workers' rights. Stop global warming.

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And, indeed, at the APEC meeting is a president who really does occupy a foreign country, really does trample workers' rights and really does lead a country that now belches more greenhouse gases than any other.

What's more, this president also runs a gulag, bans free speech, stacks courts, jails dissidents, executes crooks and leads a government even he admits is too corrupt.

That's surely enough to tick the box of every protester in Sydney.

So here's the puzzle: why isn't tomorrow's protest called Stop Hu Jintao 2007 instead?

Why do the protesters shout abuse at Bush, the elected president of democratic United States, but not boo Hu, the unelected president of communist China?

Why did students this week stage a Walk Out on Bush, but stay at school for Hu?

And why is the big-city media so savage against Bush, while writing headlines yesterday declaring "Hu is Australia's main man" and "Big welcome for China's leader"?

None of it makes sense. What's Bush done that Hu hasn't done worse?

Under Bush, the US last year actually cut its greenhouse gases.

Hu's China, though, is now the world leader, belching out more carbon dioxide every year, with no sign of slowing.

Under Bush, US troops have liberated Iraq from a tyranny and are staying temporarily on the invitation of that country's elected government to keep that democracy safe.

Under Hu, China has just tightened its grip on occupied Tibet, this week demanding Beijing now approve all of Tibet's spiritual leaders. It has meanwhile propped up mad Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe and the genocidal one in Sudan and has threatened democratic Taiwan with war.

Bush isn't even a starter in any spot-the-tyrant game that includes Hu, whose country runs as many as 1000 forced labour camps, refuses to let even the Catholic Church operate openly, and last month even sent blogger He Weihua to a mental hospital for criticising local officials.

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