The main point here is to send a message to the Chinese, it lets them know that there's a cost to doing this, which is something they didn't have to think before.

James Lewis

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You can do damage without killing people or blowing things up; it adds an option to the toolkit that we didn't have before and our willingness to use it is important.

States still have a monopoly on power, some states may choose not to use it; unfortunately our adversaries dont work that way.

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The key question for this court is whether the conduct of Mr Sarao amounts to a crime in the UK, quite simply it does not. There's no English crime of spoofing.

It lets [the Chinese] know that there's a cost to doing this, which is something they didn't have to think before, it helps reframe the debate.

It's not like Xi's going to come in and say, 'I'm sorry, you're right. It'll never happen again.' But it does tell the Chinese: 'You're not going to be able to try to pretend (cyberespionage) didn't happen.'.

The Chinese have been saying privately, and somewhat in public, that we want the summit to go really well. 'Let's not talk about espionage. Let's talk about how we can work together', this might be a U.S. response to that: 'No, we are going to talk about espionage.'.

The issue here was intent. Was she doing it deliberately to avoid having her emails tracked, and was there classified information?

None of them want an armed conflict and none of them want North Korea to collapse. They are all worried that this could somehow lead to a war and none of them want that.