This isn’t directly about pol­i­tics, but the impli­ca­tions will have an impact on the polit­i­cal land­scape of the com­ing decade.

The United States is pretty good at fight­ing the last war, but has been increas­ingly bad at fight­ing the next. Case in point: China hijacked all US gov­ern­ment Inter­net traf­fic for a while in April. Mean­while, the US was focused on halt­ing Mus­lim terrorists.

This is scary stuff, because our nation is more depen­dent upon the Inter­net work­ing cor­rectly than you may real­ize. If China is capa­ble of inter­cept­ing large swaths of US Inter­net traf­fic, they are also capa­ble of read­ing it or chang­ing it. The impli­ca­tions truly can­not be over­stated. This is the elec­tronic equiv­a­lent of nuclear war­heads aimed at our nation, but with­out any advance warn­ing of an attack.

The focus on Al Qaeda and other Mus­lim extrem­ists is all about the last war. China is uniquely posi­tioned to be in con­trol of the next.

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