My view has long been neither – but now that Snowden is handing over materials to the Chinese media, busting the US program and playing directly into Beijing’s hands on the accusations and counter-accusations of hacking, I’m not so sure:
In an interview with the South China Morning Post newspaper, Snowden claims the U.S. has long been attacking a Hong Kong university that routes all Internet traffic in and out of the semi-autonomous Chinese region. Snowden said the National Security Agency’s 61,000 hacking targets around the world include hundreds in Hong Kong and mainland China, the paper reported late Wednesday. The Post, Hong Kong’s main English-language newspaper, said Snowden had presented documents to support those claims, but it did not describe the documents and said it could not verify them.
Maybe the Chinese will give him asylum in return for his documentation.
The Dish 