deputy director david bowditch said that the case was more about putting pressure on those who commit crimes against the u.s. and i think we can take a listen to a clip of him as well some might wonder what good it does when these hackers are seemingly beyond our reach we answer this question all the time we tried it we can't take them into custody try them in a court of law and lock them up not today anyway but one day these criminals will slip up and when they do it will be their. so it's clear he's just calling out china for its crimes there quite publicly that seems to be the real point out slowly but let's look at the broader picture here this comes at a really a sensitive time for u.s. chinese trade ties and we've recently seen the signing of a phase one trade deal phase 2 it up coming up is said to contain all the macy's stuff is there any trust left at all between these 2 countries i mean this seems to be a lot of cognitive dissonance that's the big problem but david bowditch a resource that he himself said that just because of this case doesn't mean that we have to stop doing