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When the American northeast went black in August of 2003, the official version of events was that a tree branch crippled a huge chunk of the American and Canadian power grids. This either seemed far-fetched, or utterly terrifying, depending on your point of view. Well, a new report from National Journal says that China’s “cyber-militia” [...]

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I’ll admit it: When I saw that David Brooks wrote a column about China today, I expected to hear the same silliness that I’ve seen from other journalists. I was prepared to be underwhelmed. Fortunately he did not claim that the world is flat, or that China is a time bomb waiting to explode. [...]

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