“I’m not sure this is the smartest thing to do,” he told me. “You know what the Chinese will do: They’ll put a big bull’s-eye on my back.” But Mandia didn’t seem all that worried. The Chinese were different from the Russians. “They are into this stuff for the money, the technology, the military power,” he said to me. “You don’t see Chinese shutting down networks, though if we ever got into a war they certainly know how to do that. For them it’s pretty simple: They want control at home, and access to all the technology they can eat here.”
