But only recently has China been showing its hand in using cyber warfare to launch the initial strikes. And doing it on a much wider scale. It looks like they are testing the waters, that is the point to realise, they are ramping up - the 'And so it begins' is a comment of impending doom, not a reference to the starting point of world espionage, you have to be American to over read into that :)

The UK appears though to be ramping down, phorm is a fairly good example of something that should never have hit the tables of a UK boardroom, let alone been 'tested' on a live network.