, Columnist
China’s Big Hack Has Big Implications
It ratchets up international tensions and exposes the global supply chain’s vulnerability.
The next U.S.-China battleground.
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Another day, another monumental piece of journalism. Today it’s Bloomberg Businessweek’s story on how China snuck tiny, spying microchips into servers used by Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and many other U.S. companies, along with the U.S. military and CIA. Once you get over the audacity and scope of this attack (which everybody involved denies happened), it’s worth thinking about the big problems it highlights.