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But the outage of the president’s official website could just be “a slight overload of traffic” due to “people hitting the refresh button,” Dmitri Alperovitch, a cybersecurity expert and chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, told The Washington Post.“True, there is one China, but Taiwan is the real China while yours is only an imitation straight out of wish.com,” the hackers wrote on the Chinese government website. The hackers also embedded two videos: one of the song "Fragile," by Malaysian rapper Namewee and Taiwan-based Australian singer Kimberley Chen; and one that plays Taiwan's national anthem.Subscribe to our cybersecurity podcast, CYBER. Subscribe to our new Twitch channel.Do you have information about the activities of Chinese, Taiwanese, or hacktivist hacking groups? We’d love to hear from you. You can contact Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai securely on Signal at +1 917 257 1382, Wickr/Telegram/Wire @lorenzofb, or email lorenzofb@vice.com