Mainly because none of this has ever been done before, there exists a low-level state of war between many opposing nations, even small third-parties (http://freedom-or-safety.com/blog/when-will-the-first-hacker...)

I don't see China as being made a scapegoat. I see the system working itself out. New technologies always create new relationships between people and governments. When the net rolled out, we thought the openness would bring about positive reforms. What seems to be happening is that governments are getting very good at controlling what citizens read. Instead they're using the openness of the net as an attack vector. Not exactly what we expected.