The "China threat theory" is so rampant in the West, particularly in the United States, that officials there making any claim in this regard has stopped making news. However, a report of the US Department of Defense saying the Chinese military could hack key US utilities is so ridiculous it cannot be overlooked.

Instead of improving their defense mechanism, the department in charge of the most powerful military force on Earth actually cares about some illusory hackers from China and even fabricates theories about how they have developed tools to attack US infrastructure, including causing "disruption of a natural gas pipeline for days to weeks" or other attacks on power and water utilities.

The claim is so ridiculous that anyone with an average IQ will at best laugh it off. However, the reaction from defense officials in the United States shows that they worry more about comfort and the living condition in their bases than about their lack of ability to defend their nation.

Besides, the numerous intelligence reports about so-called Chinese hackers are usually sourced to the US-led Five Eyes intelligence alliance, and Japan, but seldom do these reports contain any details or reliable information about which entity in the US was threatened or which IP addresses based in China they had identified as those being used by the hackers.

With such a huge security infrastructure in place, they could at least have investigated China's allegations of cyberattacks on the website of the Northwestern Polytechnical University, which were traced to the US National Security Agency.

In a nutshell the US agency tasked with ensuring its national security does so by making other countries insecure, and now it's blaming others for what it has been doing.