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Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Beijing denounces U.S. hacking charges against Chinese army officers

China has accused the United States of “hypocrisy” and “double standards” following its decision to charge five Chinese army officers with cybertheft against major American businesses.


The Foreign Ministry in Beijing even took the step of summoning U.S. Ambassador Max Baucus late Monday, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported, as tensions between the two countries threatened to escalate into a full-scale diplomatic incident.


Earlier Monday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the men, all members of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), “maintained unauthorized access to victim computers to steal information from these entities that would be useful” to the victims’ competitors in China.


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Ashley Fantz and Paul Armstrong, CNN via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1lKWans

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