China systematically hijacks internet traffic: researchers

In 2016, China Telecom diverted traffic between Canada and Korean government networks to its PoP in Toronto. From there, traffic was forwarded to the China Telecom PoP on the US West Coast and sent to China, and finally delivered to Korea.

Holy shit. That's fucked up.

The researchers suggest the allied democratic nations establish an "access reciprocity" policy for internet PoPs located in their countries, to address the traffic hijacking.

Under the access reciprocity policy US telcos and providers should be allowed to set up PoPs in China, Demchak and Shavitt said.

For some reason, neoliberal democracies want to open markets but never consider to defend themselves from this kind of shit. Why aren't democracies doing more to protect their citizens?