The official website of the Inter-Parliamentary Union for China Policy (IPU), which has a strong anti-China stance, was forced to shut down for about nine hours after a “denial of service” (DDoS) Cyber Attack. The coalition criticized Beijing for “hacking” to deter its critics, but German parliamentarian Bowser, a member of the coalition, said he would not be afraid of such threats.
“The Inter-Parliamentary Coalition on China Policy (IPAC), which has been taking a strong stance against China, was forced to shut down its website for about nine hours on Monday (March 29) after a cyber attack known as a “denial of service” (DDoS). The coalition has pointed the finger at Beijing. The coalition pointed the finger at Beijing and warned that these tactics would not stop it from focusing on human rights issues in China.
“Margarete Bause, a member of the coalition and spokesperson for the Green Party of the German parliamentary human rights committee, told the station that it is not yet certain whether the attack was state-managed, but if it was, it suggests that the Chinese authorities want the Inter-Parliamentary Union on China Policy This indicates that the Chinese authorities want the “Transnational Parliamentary Alliance on China Policy” to remain silent.
According to Mr. L, editor-in-chief of the overseas website “Chinawiki,” the Inter-Parliamentary Union on China Policy has become a thorn in the side of the Chinese Communist Party, and targeted cyber attacks and harassment by the state security services cannot be ruled out.
DDoS is a common method used by Chinese state security, and it is a sign of incompetence that they are unable or too lazy to penetrate the site and DDoS it, making it temporarily inaccessible but unable to destroy the content stored on the server. Simple measures such as upgrading the web server configuration and deploying Cloudflare Enterprise Edition can prevent it. The Chinese Communist Party will only be impotent and furious in the face of a forceful counterattack from anti-communists, making a mockery of the situation.
University of Technology Sydney professor Feng Chongyi told the station that as early as 2016, the media disclosed that China had set up a “strategic support force” and that the “General Staff Department Three”, the most powerful cyber espionage agency in the national security sector, had been incorporated into the department.
Feng Chongyi said: “It is not surprising that such a move by a rogue regime is a persecution force directly from the state power. The original General Staff Department 3 specializes in this kind of information warfare, specializing in the training of Hackers, with its base in Shanghai, and they have a lot of funding.
According to Feng Chongyi, the “Transnational Parliamentary Alliance on China Policy” has members from many countries across the political spectrum, and such brutal attacks by the Chinese Communist Party will only strengthen the Western world’s resentment of the Chinese Communist regime.
Feng Chongyi said, “Not only is the IPA transnational, but it is also cross-party, and the political spectrum is from the right to the left, and the attack on them will strengthen the resentment against the Chinese Communist regime.
Regarding this cyber attack, the Inter-Parliamentary Union on China Policy has notified the National Cyber Security Centre (NSC) of the UK. A spokesman for the Center said it is investigating the nature of the incident and is willing to provide technical support. “Luke de Pulford, coordinator of the coalition and a member of the Conservative Party’s Human Rights Committee, pointed the finger at China.
Robert Pritchard, a former cybersecurity expert at the U.K. Ministry of Defense, said the Chinese government has the agency for DDoS attacks. Such attacks are clearly aimed at China’s critics, and are designed to prevent the public from accessing sites that are objectionable to the Chinese government, or to disrupt the operation of those sites. While Beijing may be able to bring us down on the Internet for a few hours, nothing will stop our members from supporting Uighurs, Hong Kongers and others oppressed by Xi Jinping, he said in a media interview.
Last month, the coalition’s co-chairs and members were added to China’s sanctions list. But German parliamentarian Bowser, a member of the Alliance, said that this only makes us redouble our efforts and confirms that the Chinese authorities’ worst fears are true.
“The Inter-Parliamentary Coalition on China Policy was established last June to propose a joint and coordinated response to the enormous challenges facing China. Parliamentarians from 20 countries around the world have already joined, with over 200 members. They continue to focus on issues such as the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on Hong Kong and Xinjiang. They have called on Western countries to take a tougher stance against the Chinese Communist Party.
Chinese officials have referred to the coalition as a “nuisance coalition” and have recently increased their criticism of the organization.
The first person on the EU sanctions list was Reinhard Butikofer, the co-founder of the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition on China Policy and chair of the EU Parliament’s China Group, who announced sanctions against China last month.
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