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Both parties are to blame.

The Swiss company is to blame for making the mistake.

China telecom is to blame for not putting in place basic safeguards to prevent this.

Typos happen, everyone makes mistakes. Luckily internet routing has a system to prevent mistakes from spreading across the internet.

China is messing up this error protection system that everyone else is using by not participating.

You can't stop people from making mistakes, but hopefully you can get the people who are supposed to be preventing the mistakes to do their job.




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