<story><title>US Employee in China Suffers Brain Injury in Case Recalling Cuba Sound &apos;Attack&apos;</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-23/u-s-says-china-employee-hit-with-sound-sensations-brain-injury</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Logically speaking, it&amp;#x27;s either of:&lt;p&gt;1. These are unrelated&lt;p&gt;2. The cause is specific to the setup&amp;#x2F;operation of the US consulates themselves&lt;p&gt;3. Both Cubans (or Russians) and Chinese are using 3rd party spy tech that causes that&lt;p&gt;Anything else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>Another possibility: It is one party (state or non-state actor) that has conducted attacks on the US &lt;i&gt;in&lt;/i&gt; Cuba and China, which may not necessarily be either Cuba or China or acting with their knowledge. (Even when it was just Cuba, third-party attack was a possibility discussed.)</text></comment>
<story><title>US Employee in China Suffers Brain Injury in Case Recalling Cuba Sound &apos;Attack&apos;</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-23/u-s-says-china-employee-hit-with-sound-sensations-brain-injury</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Logically speaking, it&amp;#x27;s either of:&lt;p&gt;1. These are unrelated&lt;p&gt;2. The cause is specific to the setup&amp;#x2F;operation of the US consulates themselves&lt;p&gt;3. Both Cubans (or Russians) and Chinese are using 3rd party spy tech that causes that&lt;p&gt;Anything else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Symmetry</author><text>People dropping over in embassies in your country is a major embarrassment and I&amp;#x27;d tend to assume it was a third party in both cases whose actions caused the illnesses in both embassies.  There are lots of governments which would be interested in US internal diplomatic discussions and might be using high powered microwave transceivers or whatever this is to get it.  So if anything I&amp;#x27;d tend to see this as evidence point to someone other than the Chinese being behind this.</text></comment>