China Declares “Ironclad Evidence” of NSA Cyberattack… Such Action Is Not a Surprise
October 19, 2025•399 words
On October 19, 2025, China’s Ministry of State Security declared that it possesses “ironclad evidence” of a NSA cyberattack, allegedly, and likely involving members of the Five Eyes alliance, against the National Time Service Centre in Xi’an, China.
As Edward Snowden had mentioned in 2013, the NSA has been spying on, not only its own citizens in America, but has infiltrated its adversaries around the world through digital means for at least two decades!
According to Chinese officials, the digital intrusions date back to 2022. The accusation is more political and media driven leading up to the two leaders, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump meeting in the coming weeks and signals a deepening technological and geopolitical agitation.
Even though China is working on transitioning their society over to a homegrown desktop OS with its own baked in Ai, https://www.wicinternet.org/2024-08/09/c_1012394.htm China is extremely dependent on American computer operating systems.
Even though China's mobile OS is HarmonyOS, developed by Huawei, as a side note, which is not allowed to be sold in North America due to it's own backdoors for Chinese digital espionage on Americans and Canadians. However, here's China's problem. China's business infrastructure is dependent on Microsoft Windows, Apple iOS, and Android which have multiple backdoors for NSA and Five Eyes to snoop and spy through. Realistically and economically, China would have been 100% better off focused on transitioning to their own Linux distributions (OpenKylin and Unity Operating System - UOS) 15 to 20 years ago. By doing so, China would have drastically reduced any digital espionage on their government infrastructure and commercial industries.
Specifically Desktop OSes, Microsoft Windows rules China
Looking at all the OSes and platforms, still Microsoft OSes rule China
Given these above stats, it does not take a Sherlock Holmes to know that NSA and Five Eyes are spying on China with considerable ease.
In the language of power, this is not merely an allegation, it is possibly a repositioning in a contest for digital supremacy with the use of Ai.
What is being tested here is the infrastructure upon which modern economies and military depend. When great powers begin to strike at the invisible architecture of control, communication, data, power grids, time, they are no longer playing a defensive game. Such actions reveal a world inching closer to strategic breakdown and conflict into a digital and economic warfare.