China News Service Review: US surveillance scandal rips off the mask of "cyber security guards"
China News Service, Beijing, June 10 (Jiang Li) A few days ago, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation exposed the use of Danish Internet facilities by the US National Security Agency to secretly monitor the leaders of European allies. This is another egregious surveillance incident since the former CIA employee Snowden exposed the US "Prism Gate" program in 2013.
The United States often uses "cyber security" as an excuse to suppress other countries. The exposure of the spying on European allies has once again torn off the hypocrisy of the Washington authorities, which is enough to prove that the US cyber security pursues outright hegemony and is based on trampling on the cyber security of other countries. The United States has gone its own way and constantly challenged the bottom line of the international community. It should give an explanation to the European countries and the international community that have been spied on.
At the same time, the spying scandal has exposed the United States’ distrust of European allies. The United States has always regarded Europe as a potential threat. The superpower wants not real allies, but to monitor Europe to assist its own interests. Such espionage is bound to cause cracks in the alliance between the United States and Europe.
This incident raises doubts about the extent of US infiltration into Europe, and the "black hand" of the United States must not only extend to Europe. As Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, the US spying on European leaders is only the "tip of the iceberg". Therefore, the international community cannot tolerate this matter to go unresolved. Only by clearly opposing and combating this kind of behavior can we safeguard international cyber security and safeguard the common interests of all countries. (End)