UK Gov’t Blasted for ‘Pathetic’ Chinese Sanctions After Confirming CCP Behind Hacking Data of 40 Million Britons

The British government has been accused of being “pathetic” in the face of the threat from Communist China after announcing a relatively mild round of sanctions after admitting that hackers “affiliated to the Chinese state” were responsible for two major cyber attacks against British democratic institutions and parliamentarians.

Speaking from the floor of the House of Commons on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden formally accused Beijing of being behind the 2021 hack of Britain’s Electoral Commission, compromising the personal details of up to 40 million voters in the UK. While the Commission admitted last year that “hostile actors” were responsible for the hack, the government had not officially attributed the cyber attack to the communist nation until Dowden’s comments on Monday.