Sure it was a "snafu".

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/strange-snafu-misroutes-domestic-us-internet-traffic-through-china-telecom/

> China Telecom, the large international communications carrier with close ties 
> to the Chinese government, misdirected big chunks of Internet traffic through 
> a roundabout path that threatened the security and integrity of data passing 
> between various providers’ backbones for two and a half years, a security 
> expert said Monday. It remained unclear if the highly circuitous paths were 
> intentional hijackings of the Internet’s Border Gateway Protocol or were 
> caused by accidental mishandling.


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