The US Department of Defense claimed China’s cyber military hacked sensitive sites.  After the US, Great Britain was the target of Chinese hackers towards its system of computer information. Allegedly, these Internet attacks are operated by the Red Hackers of China, aka China Eagle Union or Honkers Union of China. Since the end of 1990s, this government sponsored group of Chinese hackers has become masters in computer intrusion and impairment of Websites. Taiwan and Japan have also claimed to be victims of similar attacks.

In 1997, the Japanese computer system was targeted on the 60th anniversary of the launching of Sino-Japanese war. Indonesia, where anti-Chinese riots took place, has also been punished by the “Chinese new army”. In May, 1999, the accidental bombing of the embassy of China in Belgrade, during the striking of NATO against the Serbia, sparked the attack of many American governmental department websites.

The Chinese seem to employ the ‘Net as a new means to act in a controversial situation. As doing so, it brings conflict in to a new the dimension, the web.  The groups of Chinese hackers are part of a tolerated nationalist nebula and manipulated by the Communist Party which, by playing on the grain of nationalism, tries to give itself a new legitimacy. Thus, the Red Hackers asserts to act so as to defend “respectability and the integrity of Chinese fatherland”. The Internet is no longer the information super highway, but it is becoming the battlefield of the 21st century.