Weeks before a potentially crucial Trump–Xi summit, the U.S. Justice Department has dramatically softened an explosive allegation against Beijing: NASA, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Senate were not all breached by Chinese hackers — they were targeted. One word was enough to significantly change the scale of one of Washington’s most serious recent cyber allegations against China. And the timing is impossible to ignore. On August 26, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an FBI operation to seize internet infrastructure used by QTFY, a hacking group that American authorities link to China. The original announcement described NASA, the Federal…