China says it will talk to US about hacking
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March 13, 2013, Wednesday
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CHINA is offering talks with the United States about cyber security amid an escalating war of words between the two sides on computer hacking.
The world's two leading economies have been squaring off for months over the issue of cyber attacks, each accusing the other of hacking into sensitive government and corporate websites.
On Monday, US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon called on China to acknowledge the scope of the problem and enter a dialogue with the US on ways to establish acceptable behavior.
China, in response, said yesterday that it was happy to talk. "China is willing, on the basis of the principles of mutual respect and mutual trust, to have constructive dialogue and cooperation on this issue with the international community including the United States to maintain the security, openness and peace of the Internet," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chuying said at a daily news briefing.
"Internet security is a global issue. In fact, China is a marginalized group in this regard, and one of the biggest victims of hacking attacks," she said.
Two major Chinese military websites, including that of the defense ministry, were subject to more than 140,000 hacking attacks a month last year, almost two-thirds of them from the US, the ministry said previously.
A US computer security company said last month that a secretive Chinese military unit was likely behind a series of hacking attacks mostly targeting the US.
Senior People's Liberation Army officers yesterday repeated denials of having anything to do with hacking.
"This talk from the US has no foundation whatsoever," said Major General Liu Lianhua from the Guangzhou Military Area Command. "And what evidence is there? There isn't any."
Wang Hongguang, deputy commander of the PLA's Nanjing Military Area Command, called the US "a thief calling others a thief."
But asked if China should develop its hacking capabilities for counterattacks, Wang said: "I think we will. If the enemy has it, we'll want to have it too. We must have the means at least to defend ourselves."
Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has called cyberspace "a community of common destiny."
"What cyberspace needs is not war, but rules and cooperation," he said.
The world's two leading economies have been squaring off for months over the issue of cyber attacks, each accusing the other of hacking into sensitive government and corporate websites.
On Monday, US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon called on China to acknowledge the scope of the problem and enter a dialogue with the US on ways to establish acceptable behavior.
China, in response, said yesterday that it was happy to talk. "China is willing, on the basis of the principles of mutual respect and mutual trust, to have constructive dialogue and cooperation on this issue with the international community including the United States to maintain the security, openness and peace of the Internet," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chuying said at a daily news briefing.
"Internet security is a global issue. In fact, China is a marginalized group in this regard, and one of the biggest victims of hacking attacks," she said.
Two major Chinese military websites, including that of the defense ministry, were subject to more than 140,000 hacking attacks a month last year, almost two-thirds of them from the US, the ministry said previously.
A US computer security company said last month that a secretive Chinese military unit was likely behind a series of hacking attacks mostly targeting the US.
Senior People's Liberation Army officers yesterday repeated denials of having anything to do with hacking.
"This talk from the US has no foundation whatsoever," said Major General Liu Lianhua from the Guangzhou Military Area Command. "And what evidence is there? There isn't any."
Wang Hongguang, deputy commander of the PLA's Nanjing Military Area Command, called the US "a thief calling others a thief."
But asked if China should develop its hacking capabilities for counterattacks, Wang said: "I think we will. If the enemy has it, we'll want to have it too. We must have the means at least to defend ourselves."
Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has called cyberspace "a community of common destiny."
"What cyberspace needs is not war, but rules and cooperation," he said.
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