Biden: “Cyberattacks can lead to a war of war”. Threat to Russia and China?
Biden is becoming increasingly annoyed by cyber attacks on US networks, both public and private, and has come to make very concrete threats.
" You know, we've seen how cyber threats, including ransomware attacks, are increasingly capable of causing damage and disruption to the real world, " Biden said in a speech during a visit to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. " I think we are more likely to end up – well, if we end up in a war, a real war fired with a great power will be the result of a major cyber hack ."
The United States and several allies, including NATO, recently accused China of being behind the Microsoft Exchange Server hack discovered earlier this year. As with the similar accusations against Russia, however, the US authorities did not want to, or could, show evidence. The Atlantic alliance recently added cyber attacks to its list of reasons why the Article 5 mutual defense clause, which would spark a war with all 30 of its members, can be invoked.
In his speech, Biden addressed so-called "threats" from Russia and China. Taking a blow to Russia, Biden said President Vladimir Putin is "sitting atop an economy that has nuclear weapons and oil wells and nothing else". He said this makes Putin "even more dangerous".
Biden spoke about his time with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Obama administration, when both leaders were vice presidents. Biden said that Xi wants China to become "the most powerful military force in the world" and "the most important economy" by 2040. For now, Biden's attitude towards China is still not well understood, as it appeared quite erratic.
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