NATO summit communiqué compares repeat cyberattacks to armed attacks – and stops short of saying 'one-in, all-in' rule will always apply
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The new standard refers to Article 5 of the 1949 [1]North Atlantic Treaty , as it declares that an attack on a single NATO member is considered an act of violence against all members and worthy of retaliation.
The 30-country alliance's new communiqué, issued after its Monday summit, [2]states that Article 5 can apply to cyberattacks.
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The communiqué reads:
We reaffirm that a decision as to when a cyber-attack would lead to the invocation of Article 5 would be taken by the North Atlantic Council on a case-by-case basis."
Allies recognise that the impact of significant malicious cumulative cyber activities might, in certain circumstances, be considered as amounting to an armed attack.
NATO said it is willing to "employ the full range of capabilities at all times to actively deter, defend against, and counter the full spectrum of cyber threats, including those conducted as part of hybrid campaigns, in accordance with international law."
The document treats both Russia and China as threats. Russia earns 63 mentions and is labelled as "aggressive." China is mentioned ten times, and its behaviour is described as "assertive" and "presenting systemic challenges." The document vows to engage China to defend Alliance security interests, referring specifically to China's cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns and actions in the [4]space domain , among others.
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One day earlier, the G7 issued the Carbis Bay G7 Summit Communiqué [9]calling upon Russia to "identify, disrupt, and hold to account those within its borders who conduct ransomware attacks, abuse virtual currency to launder ransoms, and other cybercrimes." The [10]G7 communique also called out China for human rights violations, specifically those related to Xinjiang and the Uyghur population and freedom violations in Hong Kong.
Director of China's Central Commission Office for Foreign Affairs, Yang Jiechi, [11]denied the accusations of human rights violations over the phone to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, claiming that "some anti-China forces are trying to stir up one after another sinister waves to smear China."
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China's not the only country unhappy with some details of this weekend's multilateral summit. Guest Country India refused to sign the first copy of the G7 and Guest Countries: 2021 Open Societies Statement as it denounced internet shutdowns as a violation of freedom of expression. India later accepted a [13]revised version condemning only "politically motivated internet shutdowns."
India has in the past [14]denied internet services to Jammu and Kashmir, the Muslim-majority Indian State that it stripped of semi-autonomous status in 2019, on security grounds. The nation has also ordered shutdowns during protests by farmers, citing the likelihood of violence at such events. Both shutdowns have been widely interpreted as politically-motivated attempts to stymie dissenting voices. ®
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[1] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_17120.htm
[2] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_185000.htm
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offbeat/legal&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2YMh6QGFnq@FaPBkS8FSnywAAAAw&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/07/space_debris_regulation/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/03/china_australia_meme_incident/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/26/keith_krach_undersecretary_of_state_usa_vs_huawei/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/05/usa_seizes_more_iran_linked_domains/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/26/dataiku_forms_an_alliance_with_nato_to_apply_ai_in_the_battlefield/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/14/g7_ransomware_communique_calls_out_russia/
[10] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/13/carbis-bay-g7-summit-communique/
[11] http://www.chinaembassy.org.sg/eng/jrzg/t1883498.htm
[12] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offbeat/legal&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YMh6QGFnq@FaPBkS8FSnywAAAAw&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[13] https://www.mea.gov.in/bilateral-documents.htm?dtl/33910/G7+and+Guest+Countries+2021+Open+Socities+Statement
[14] https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/09/india_internet_bans_kashmir_twitter/
[15] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
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We believe in an International Rules-Based Order
...providing they're our rules, and they only apply to you .
Dear China,
Do be aware of the reasons there are anti-China elements in the West. persecuting your minorities, laying claim to the territories of neighbouring free peoples and threatening military occupation, and suppressing democracy and free speech, are all reasons why so many of us take a negative attitude towards you and why NATO so distrusts your words. In the West, the wise judge a tree by the fruit it bears. You cannot hide every satellite image, all the smartphone footage. You have brazenly lied too often, you have no face left in the West any more, your pompous and mealy-mouthed self-righteousness makes you a laughing-stock in the same class as Donald Trump. If you want your face back, you have to earn it back.
Remember too, we love you enough to eat your food, collect your art, build trade and share technology with you, educate many of your citizens and give homes to a great many more. Yours is a wonderful and historic people, the greatest and longest-established nation on our planet and, in principle, equal in every way to the West. The vast majority of we Westerners would far prefer to share our planet with you than fight you for it. Your people deserve better than your shameful, aggressive, lying ways.
This is starting to look like playground scuffles
"Stop that you two !"
"But he started it !"
"No, you started it !".
I was going to say that we need to approach this matter as adults, but then I remembered that we just got out of OHSG's presidency, and we still have The Boris on our side.
So playground scuffles it is.