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DefenseNo cyber warNo Impact – Our Cyber Tech is better – the “Chinese threat” is all hype.Robert S. Ross, 2009, is a professor of political science at Boston College, an associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University and a fellow of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. September 2009 - October 2009, (The National Interest, HEADLINE: Here Be Dragons, Robert S. Ross and Aaron L. Friedberg Debate: Is China a Military Threat?, p. Lexis) Beijing is also developing cyber-warfare techniques, but exaggerated assessments of this capability fail to evaluate China’s own emerging vulnerability to such attacks. Cyber-warfare technologies and skills are readily accessible and U.S. advanced munitions are increasingly dependent on high-technology communication and surveillance technologies. The United States is thus vulnerable to cyber attacks, and a Chinese cyber offensive against the United States could influence U.S. operations in the western Pacific. Nonetheless, the reciprocal effect of Washington’s cyber-warfare capability on Beijing’s ability to wage high- technology warfare is equally significant. The same advanced Chinese technologies and weaponry that pessimists argue present a major threat to U.S. security, including ASBMs, are highly dependent on advanced communication and surveillance technologies that are particularly vulnerable to U.S. cyber attacks. And once the United States degrades the PLA’s advanced communication technologies, China would lose its high-technology asymmetric capability that so alarms America’s pessimists, and it would be very susceptible to a wide range of superior U.S. sea-based forces, even if the United States suffered from an effective Chinese cyber attack. No impact – their evidence is just rhetoric and empirically denied – cyber weapons burn out and countermeasures are superior Download 357.18 Kb. Share with your friends:
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