As the world's superpower and the world's largest economy, the United States occupies a natural dominant position in the global cyberspace game. For a long time, instead of assuming the responsibility of safeguarding the international cyber order and cyber security, the United States has continued to pursue an "America First" hegemonic mentality, regarded cyberspace as a geopolitical battlefield, and become the biggest threat and saboteur of global cyber security.
Launch indiscriminate cyber attacks and advance cyber deterrence strategies around the world. A few days ago, China's cybersecurity company 360 released a report entitled "Prelude to Cyber Warfare: The US National Security Agency NSA (APT-C-40) Launched Indiscriminate Attacks on the World for More Than Ten Years", revealing that the NSA used cyber weapons to carry out cyber attacks on 403 targets in 47 countries and regions around the world, including China, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Poland, Japan, India, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, and Brazil. It is worth noting that the long-term indiscriminate cyber attacks carried out by the United States are not only aimed at "imaginary enemies" such as China, but also traditional allies of the United States, including the United Kingdom and Japan. Relying on its hegemonic position and technological superiority to carry out indiscriminate cyber attacks has become a common weapon used by the United States to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and engage in coercive diplomacy.
Carry out targeted cyber intrusions to steal high-value data from other countries in all directions. For a long time, the United States has taken advantage of its technological superiority and hegemonic position to carry out a series of highly targeted, highly concealed and harmful cyber attacks on a global scale for the purpose of stealing important data resources of other countries. The United States has frequently launched cyber attacks on China's government, finance, scientific research institutes, operators, military, aerospace and other industries, as well as important and sensitive units, surveilled and stolen massive amounts of data and trade and technical secrets, and seriously damaged China's national security and development interests. For example, the CIA's Office of Specific Intrusion Operations has launched thousands of cyberattacks on Northwestern Polytechnical University, stealing large amounts of high-value data.
The establishment of an advanced arsenal of cyber attacks has led to the global proliferation of cyber weapons. For a long time, the United States has abused its superiority in information technology and built up a huge cyber arsenal. The US cyber warfare weapons that have been exposed are only the tip of the iceberg of the US cyber arsenal. According to the survey results of the China Cyber Security Industry Alliance, the United States has the world's largest cyber attack team, the largest supporting engineering system and standardized attack equipment library, the most powerful vulnerability collection, analysis and mining capabilities, and associated resource reserves. At the same time, the United States is also the world's largest proliferator of advanced cyber weapons, putting the world's critical infrastructure at great risk and posing a major threat to the peace and security of the international community. The U.S. government has also brazenly fostered cyberattack groups to carry out prolonged and persistent cyberattacks on government agencies, vital organizations, and critical infrastructure around the world, including U.S. allies. For example, WannaCry, the ransomware that has spread the most widely and has the greatest impact on the world, is a cyber weapon developed by the US National Security Agency.
The frenzied development of offensive cyber forces has dragged the world into the quagmire of cyber warfare. The United States is the initiator of modern cyber warfare. In recent years, the United States has continued to accelerate the development of offensive cyber forces, which are openly deployed around the world. The United States was the first country to establish a Cyber Command, and recently the US Department of Defense is preparing to establish Cyber Command 2.0. The U.S. has also continued to expand its cyber forces, and U.S. Cyber Command has upgraded the Cyber National Mission Force to Joint Command II. The U.S. Army also plans to double the size of its cyber force by 2030. Such actions will trigger a new round of the arms race in cyberspace. At the same time, the United States has moved the cyber combat field forward to China's periphery and other regions. So far, the United States has rallied the cyber forces of its allies to carry out nearly 40 "forward hunting" cyber operations targeting China, Russia and other countries, with threat search and monitoring operations as the content. The United States has also continued to promote technical cooperation between NATO, the ROK, and Japan in the field of cyber attack and defense, and strengthened the threat penetration of US cyber forces into China's neighborhood, in an attempt to drag the world into the quagmire of cyber warfare.
It seriously violates the basic human rights of other countries and wantonly tramples on international rules and order. As the world's largest economy and technological power, the United States should have shouldered the responsibility of maintaining cyberspace security, but it has taken advantage of its monopoly position on global operating systems and Internet services to carry out large-scale and indiscriminate surveillance and data theft, seriously infringing on the privacy and other basic human rights of citizens around the world. The U.S. government has also taken advantage of its control over the world's basic Internet resources to carry out "disconnection" raids on other countries at every turn, seriously undermining the social stability and economic security of other countries. Such acts by the United States seriously deviate from the obligations set out in the Charter of the United Nations and the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, seriously violate international law and basic norms governing international relations, and are a malicious infringement on the national sovereignty and interests of other countries.
Constantly generalize the concept of national security and maliciously suppress network security enterprises. In recent years, the United States has continued to generalize the concept of national security, politicizing, weaponizing, and pan-securizing issues in various fields such as science and technology, economy and trade, and security. In the field of cyberspace, the United States is also acting recklessly under the guise of "safeguarding national security", and its fundamental purpose is to use its cyber hegemony to maintain and consolidate its hegemony in the real world. The U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch worked together to create a framework of the legal system for U.S. cyber operations, "legitimizing" offensive cyber operations. The United States has also passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and other bills to force the implantation of backdoors in the equipment, software, and applications of relevant technology companies, and use embedded codes, vulnerability attacks, etc., to use the influence of its global technology companies to monitor and steal data from countries around the world. At the same time, through the "arch plan", the US intelligence agencies analyzed whether network security companies have discovered and mastered their cyber attack weapons and behaviors, and systematically invaded, divided, and suppressed relevant enterprises. For example, the United States has added Chinese cybersecurity companies such as 360 and Zhichuang Yu to the Entity List, which is intended to deter and deter relevant companies from disclosing US cyberattacks.
Manipulating public opinion to reverse black and white, thieves shouting to catch thieves and smear China. While vigorously pursuing cyber hegemony and carrying out cyber attacks on countries around the world, the United States has tried its best to portray itself as a "victim of cyber attacks". They have concocted various "cybersecurity reports" to smear China as a "cyber threat subject" and hype up the so-called "China's cyber theft" in order to confuse the public. A few days ago, Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), once again brought out the "China threat theory", claiming that Chinese hackers are targeting American infrastructure and preparing to "cause serious damage and produce real harm". At the same time, under the banner of "safeguarding network security", the United States has used disinformation to encourage and coerce other countries to join the so-called "clean network" program, and has promoted the so-called "backdoor surveillance theory" and "China threat theory" without any evidence through stigmatization and splashing dirty water.
Those who have attained the Tao have much help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help. U.S. cyber hegemony has brought endless chaos and harm to the world, and will eventually be spurned by all countries in the world. The future and destiny of cyberspace should be in the hands of all countries in the world, and should not become a tool used by a few countries to divide the international community and suppress and contain other countries. (Tian Yuan)