American cyber brass calls for retaliatory strikes against China, but is the US really ready?

In the wake of the Salt Typhoon attacks that compromised most of the major telecommunications providers in the US, many in the upper echelons of power are pushing for offensive cyber operations against China.

The move would model a tit-for-tat strategy, in that China has struck the US, so the US should strike China, and vice-versa until they stop.

The difficulty with that strategy, as legendary threat intelligence analyst Marcus Hutchins explains, is that the US is woefully under regulated and underprepared for any escalation of cyber warfare with China.

No scope for cyber war