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China Accused (Again) of Spying on the African Union

by Eric Olander
Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP

Today’s Reuters report that detailed how suspected Chinese hackers broke into African Union data networks to siphon off surveillance video sparked a whole new round of “I told you so.”

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