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China didn’t break into America’s telecom networks with futuristic cyber weapons — it walked through unlocked doors.
Washington often frames the cyber conflict with Beijing as high-stakes statecraft, a sophisticated great-power chess match characterized by daring spies and zero-day exploits. This narrative is flattering, but false. As the recent Salt Typhoon revelations show, America is not losing a chess match to China’s hackers. It is failing a safety inspection of its own making.
Securing U.S. networks requires treating telecom cyber security not as a voluntary partnership, but as a critical safety discipline: enforcing mandatory operational baselines, demanding executive verification of network hygiene, and locking down the lawful intercept systems that adversaries are actively targeting.
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Washington often frames the cyber conflict with Beijing as high-stakes statecraft, a sophisticated great-power chess match characterized by daring spies and zero-day exploits. This narrative is flattering, but false. As the recent Salt Typhoon revelations show, America is not losing a chess match to China’s hackers. It is failing a safety inspection of its own making.
Securing U.S. networks requires treating telecom cyber security not as a voluntary partnership, but as a critical safety discipline: enforcing mandatory operational baselines, demanding executive verification of network hygiene, and locking down the lawful intercept systems that adversaries are actively targeting.
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Is America’s Cyber Weakness Self-Inflicted?
China didn’t break into America’s telecom networks with futuristic cyber weapons — it walked through unlocked doors. Washington often frames the cyber
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