Short Answer? No..

* National Security Agency director Army Gen. Paul Nakasone was asked by former NSA general counsel Glenn Gerstell if China is ahead of or equal to the United States in cyber and surveillance. Nakasone quickly cut off his ex-colleague and responded: "No, no, no."

Nakasone acknowledged that "there is a scope, scale, sophistication that we ascribe to what China's doing today. Are they getting better? Yes. But... as we think about this, how do we address it? And what are our competitive advantages against a nation that has so much scope, so much scale, and increasing sophistication?" he said at a Center for Strategic and International Studies talk.

The first advantage is the ability to "understand what our adversary's doing," he said, noting how in May the NSA and other agencies detected a China state-sponsored cyber actor targeting critical infrastructure...