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No it's not true, the GP just lied out of spite. Also, the OP blog post wrote about Chinese AS' out of spite too /s

To put it rather mildly, I don't really think they care.

It was true (well, in the same ballpark, don’t remember exact numbers) for the website I was in a position to see it for. It may be different for others, but like 98% of the malicious traffic comes from 3 or 4 countries.

It is sometimes explicitly used by the government to bring down sites: see the "Great Cannon of China"[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Cannon