elpenguino:

 

SaltyNZ:

 

And I love the international spirit of hypocrisy we've got going here, as if the Five Eyes - us included - don't have our own teams of people trying to break into Chinese government networks. Who do they think they're fooling?

 

 

Obviously that's different - after all, we're the good guys.

 

It's just being practical.

CCP that controls China is no friend of democracy and civil rights, internationally as well as in their own territory, and others like nine dash line and certain autocracies around the world.

They are not operating in our interests, as a liberal democracy which is an anathema to CCP.
CCP is where civil rights lawyers go to jail for trying defend people, or conveniently die.
Tibet, Xinjiang Uyghur, Hong Kong, Secret Police stations around the world etc.

Taiwan one of the most liberal democracies in Asia.
Shaken off the old autocracy of KMT, only one to pass freedoms and marriage for LGBT in Asia.
Even facing up to its past 'White Terror' against native population as well.
CCP would turn it into another Xinjiang where the wrong word and you are gone. Rewind the clock.

Hong Kong, CCPs gift is giving out long prison terms for anything that can be said to be disloyalty to China's CCP. 
New laws to help enable even worse, as well as travel bans if you are politically unreliable.
Parents now have to instruct their children to be careful what they say at school.
Parrot the propaganda, and hope they can get out before its too late.