How Kissinger’s Secret Trip to China Transformed the Cold War
How Kissinger’s Secret Trip to China Transformed the Cold War Tuesday, 20 July, 2021 - 04:15 Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University s School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. His latest book is American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump. A A
This month marked the 100th birthday of the Chinese Communist Party, a centennial that President Xi Jinping celebrated by promising that China’s enemies will have their “heads bashed bloody against a Great Wall of steel.” It also marks the 50th anniversary of a more hopeful moment in Sino-American relations: Henry Kissinger’s secret trip to Beijing in 1971.
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US and allies blame China for hacking Microsoft Exchange ANI | Updated: Jul 20, 2021 06:03 IST
Washington [US], July 20 (ANI): The United States and its allies on Monday blamed the Chinese government for the massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and asserted that Beijing-affiliated cyber operators have conducted ransomware operations.
In a statement, the White House said that an unprecedented group of allies and partners - including the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) are joining the United States in exposing and criticising the People s Republic of China (PRC) malicious cyber activities.
With this, Washington has launched a new offensive against China on cyber fronts amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
The broad range of cyber threats from Beijing disclosed by international bodies on Monday included a ransomware attack from alleged Chinese Government-affiliated hackers who targeted victims with demands for millions of dollars. Furthermore, the exploitation of Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities in New Zealand in early 2021, which the GCSB attributed to state-sponsored Chinese actors, left many companies and organisations vulnerable to other attacks. Cyberattacks are an increasing issue worldwide and analysts say the breadth of them and the damage they cause is getting worse, putting people, businesses and governments at a disadvantage and posing a security risk. China has long been accused of espionage – in part, so that allegedly offshore intellectual property can be stolen to benefit Chinese businesses. However, the recent attacks were more widespread and also of more concern because Microsoft’s vulnerabilities were shared, allowing them to be exploited by other cyb