Is the Chinese Government Supporting a Campaign?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/technology/hacking-in-asia-is-linked-to-chinese-ex-graduate-student.html?ref=asia

Japanese, Tibeten, and Indian computers are all getting hacked. The source of these hackings appears to be in China. If these people are supported, but not affliated with, the Chinese government then this is a campaign. In which case China is using hackers to mess with and gather information from Japan, Tibet, and India on a large scale and aren't looking to get caught.  Considering that China is going to change leaders soon, an operation like this could be testing the waters and figuring out how these countries would react to something that the Chinese have planned, but beyond that I'm clueless to what they could possibily gain through this menevure.