I had forewarned that the U.S. indictment of those 4 Chinese military alleged hackers would not be the end of the matter for China.

Now, comes another little tsunami at the U.S.:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-06/20/c_133423845.htm

How is the U.S. going to answer this?

When Assange and Snowden blew the whistle about the world wide U.S. hacking, it never answered the individual violations that were leaked.

All the U.S. did was to bark, howl and groan that these men broke U.S. state secrets. This in Informal Logic is known as the manouevre of a non sequitur and it is worth nothing. It is is no answer to anything.

So, when a state like naughty China pulls your pants down to show your nude bottom to the whole world, what and how are you going to reply.

The problem about a state secret re nation X is no secret at all to nation X. It is not because if it is true, nation X already knows it.

Question :
So whose state secret or what state secret is really involved here.
Obviously it is the state secret that you managed to find out what Nation X did and you don't want Nation X to know that you know.
But if nation X has already done it . . .what is the big deal?

Question 2:
So is it fair morally and ethically to potentially criminalize Julian Assange and Edward Snowden?
Legally it may be but is it legitimate?