Schneier wrote about related attacks just over a month ago in a post titled "Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet" (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_le...)

Schneier's post is hardly prophetic. The idea that "china is attacking the internet" is so well ingrained, that this 2-year-old fake security attack map has "china mode", to make most of the attacks seem to come from China (part of the mockery of such maps): https://github.com/hrbrmstr/pewpew