From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is Daily.

After blaming Russia for a major hacking operation last year,

the U.S. is sanctioning more than 30 individuals and entities after intelligence.

The Biden administration responded with extensive sanctions designed to punish its government.

There are some of the most punitive U.S. measures taken against Russia in years.

That did not happen this week, after the administration blamed China for a similar hack.

President Biden is condemning China for a massive cyber attack,

but so far it's not going beyond tough words.

China is not facing any punishments from the United States as of right now.

Not even sanctions is that a mistake?

A steadhoundan spoke with our colleague, David Sanger, about why the U.S. is taking a different approach with China.

It's Wednesday, July 21st.

What is this Chinese cyber attack that the Biden administration just came out and condemned?

There has been so many of these attacks it feels recently. It's kind of hard to keep track.

Sure I said, and it can be a little bit confusing because every time you turn on the TV or open the newspaper,

you read about another hack coming out of Russia or China or someplace.

Some of them are state-sponsored. Some of them are done by private groups.

And this one that the Biden administration was going after was fascinating because we learned that it was a little bit of each.

Let me just walk you through what happened.

You'll remember that at the end of last year, just during the presidential transition,

everybody was transfixed by a big hack that was done by the Russians. It was called SolarWinds.

It was very ingenious because it got into the supply chain of software that companies use to basically manage their computer systems, network management, things like that.

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