If we assume good faith, then they’re not committing espionage, they’re just incompetent to an extreme. Why then should we take the Chinese telecom industry seriously?
It was a Swiss company making a config error on their side, how is this incompetence on the Chinese end?
One thing you could criticize them for is that they're one of the few larger ones that still don't use MANRS, which is most likely since they use BGP spoofing domestically for censorship.
I recall reading that BGP leaks are common but most ISPs take steps from propagating them within a few seconds to minutes. The two hours is the incompetence I think he is referring to.
"But instead of ignoring the BGP leak, China Telecom re-announced Safe Host's routes as its own, and by doing so, interposed itself as one of the shortest ways to reach Safe Host's network and other nearby European telcos and ISPs."
This is not 'good faith'.
This is the Swiss leaving their doors unlocked by accident and China walking in and taking a few pictures, purposefully.
