Why Are We At Cyber War?

       Well President Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are done with two days of "informal" talks, says the New York Times today. They couldn't agree on cyberespionage though. Are you surprised at that? We know China is already waging cyberwar on us and we're waging counterespionage on them. Now you may ask why it is that they're waging this all out war on us and we're not waging it right back on them.
       You may ask, but that doesn't mean the government is gonna tell you the answer. Here's what I think. I think that they're cyber attacking us to get our secret information, but there's no point in cyber attacking them because the only information we'd get is our own information right back. See, China hasn't figured out how to do very much except steal secret info about almost everything and then hire interpreters so they can print it out in Chinese or Mandarin.
        So why do you suppose China's Xi Jinping isn't willing to talk about ending cyber-attacks? I'll tell ya why. It's because China has everything to gain from cyber-attacks and nothing to lose. It simply isn't in their best interests to give up such a lucrative enterprise. Now if there was a reason why cyber-attacks were harmful to China, then Xi Jinping would be banging on our door demanding an end to such dreadful goings ons. They wouldn't be able to wait. They'd be accusing us of stalling.
       The real question is why haven't we come up with a way to make cyber-attacks a bad deal for China? If China got stung by a bee every time it put its fingers in the cookie jar, China would soon enough stop putting its fingers in our cookie jar. Then our cookies would be safe. And our secrets too.
       I don't think the secret to stopping them is to keep whining about it, Our best approach is to find a way to sting them every time they try to get our secrets. Something that makes their efforts backfire. They sure wouldn't like it, but it's better to have them unhappy than to have us unhappy. At least it would be better for us. And after all, isn't that what the whining is all about?