[merrylander]

There has already been a case where the Chinese, using the Internet protocols* diverted almost all U.S. traffic through Chinese servers before sending it on to its destination. Whether they copied it all is not knowm.

* Part of IP is where nodes in the network periodically send each other messages that say basically - I connect to X in three hops, or I connect to X in one hop. So naturally traffic to X will choose the shortest path, except in this case they lied.