Lindsey Graham: “If China engages in a cyber attack upon the United States, do you…”

On the recordFebruary 8, 2012

If China engages in a cyber attack upon the United States, do you consider such an attack to be a hostile act against the United States?

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Republican · South Carolina

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Graham questions the nature of cyber attacks from China as hostile.

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