Maybe China is hacking into US telecoms, but this article provides no actual evidence to back up this claim. Its citations are a WSJ article which only sources a chain of other WSJ articles and a WaPo article which doesn't provide any sources at all.

NSA spies on Americans

Chinese intelligence agency spies on NSA

NSA: "Wait, you aren't supposed to do that"

The hackers were able to listen to phone calls and read text messages, reportedly exploiting the system U.S. authorities use to wiretap Americans in criminal cases.

Oh no, the predictable consequences of violating privacy. Anyway don't let me get in the way of any China bad posting from this