US Charges 12 Chinese Nationals in Global Hacking Operation

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Anti-China narrative

The Chinese government has created a sophisticated hacker-for-hire ecosystem that provides plausible deniability while enabling widespread cyber espionage against US interests, threatening national security and compromising sensitive information across multiple sectors.

Pro-China narrative

The US accusations embody hypocritical double standards from the world's largest hacking empire, which itself conducts cyberattacks against Chinese high-tech enterprises through intelligence agencies, making these charges groundless and politically motivated.

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