So It's To Be Cyber-War, Then

We fired a cyber-shot across the bow after the apparent failure of President Obama to get President Xi of China to back off from cyber-espionage against us when they met earlier this month in California. China's exploitation of the Snowden Affair to push back rather than deal with us gives us little choice but to wage cyber-war.

China is in no mood to rein in their cyber-warriors:

"We express grave concern about the recent disclosures of the U.S. government's cyber attacks on China," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement. "This once again proves that China is a victim of cyber attacks."

Hua said China has "made representations to the United States".

China would rather blunt our criticisms of their cyber-espionage by exploiting Snowden (assuming they had nothing to do with it in the first place) than scale their own cyber-espionage efforts back.

We locked and loaded our cyber-capabilities. Is Snowden the e-Lusitania event that unleashes the dogs of cyber-war?

We'll see if China has awakened a sleeping e-giant; or if we are cyber-midgets.