China Suspends Cybersecurity Cooperation After U.S. Charges

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

By Bloomberg News May 20, 2014

China suspended its involvement in a cybersecurity working group and threatened further retaliation after the U.S. indicted five Chinese military officials for allegedly stealing trade secrets.

The indictment is a “serious violation of the basic norms of international relations and damaged China-U.S. cooperation and mutual trust,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement. Assistant Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang summoned U.S. Ambassador Max Baucus yesterday to lodge a formal protest, the ministry said today.

Qin’s sharply worded statement reflected how the charges, which accused China of a vast effort to mine U.S. technology through cyber-espionage, added new strains to a relationship already tested by past allegations of hacking. Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden claimed last year that the U.S had been hacking into computers in China since 2009.

The cybersecurity working group was established last year when U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited Beijing and the two sides tried to patch up ties. China urged the U.S. to “revoke the so-called prosecution,” according to Qin’s statement.

Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-05-19/china-suspends-cybersecurity-cooperation-with-u-dot-s-dot-after-charges

[FreedRadical]

1. Let me see if I got this right.

You busted us, so now we are pissed.

I'm taking my ball and going home.

[merrily]

2. Good thing they didn't call their loans.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Yet

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[merrily]

4. "Yet" was implied.

[Jesus Malverde]

8. The subtext of all this "outrage" is the thirty year energy deal about to be

signed by China and Russia. It's not gonna be set in dollars.

[dipsydoodle]

10. Too right.

China and Russia had already stopped using US$s for trade anyway.

[FreedRadical]

5. I know. God I swear.

We give over most American manufacturing to the Chinese. Allow ourselves to be beholding to them. Then walk around like we have the upper hand.

We give over our space infrastructure to the Russians. Then act like they need us.

These fucking people running this country are out of their fucking minds. 5 year olds could do a better job.

[merrily]

6. Usually, five year olds are not that corrupt and callous yet.

though some of them do try, especially when caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

[kelliekat44]

7. Well, Reagan was the first to suggest that we give the Russians our weapons shield info. nt

[bemildred]

12. +1. Dumb as a box of rocks, the lot of them. nt

[kelliekat44]

9. China doesn't need our cooperation. They have Snowden. nt

[Nihil]

11. Not to mention a large chunk of your government. (n/t)

[dipsydoodle]

13. China calls US 'mincing rascal' over hacking charges

Washington is playing the victim of cyber-espionage when in fact it is the world's top intelligence power, a Chinese state-run newspaper has said in a sharply worded editorial after US authorities levelled criminal hacking charges at China's army.

"Regarding the issue of network security, the US is such a mincing rascal that we must stop developing any illusions about it," wrote the Global Times, which is close to the ruling Communist party.

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The Global Times, which often takes a nationalistic stance, said Washington's "pretentious accusation against Chinese army officers is ridiculous" given that the US National Security Agency (NSA) had engaged in widespread cyber-spying through its Prism programme.

"Interpol should have ordered the arrest of designers and implementers of the Prism programme but they did not," the paper wrote. "Therefore the US is acting so shameless by posting photos of the five Chinese army officers."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/china-calls-us-mincing-rascal-over-hacking-charges