{"id":32993,"date":"2013-03-14T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=32993 "},"modified":"2013-03-14T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T18:36:00","slug":"32993-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=32993","title":{"rendered":"President Obama upbraids China over cyber attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Some are state-sponsored, some are just sponsored by criminals’<\/div>
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President Barack Obama has said in a TV interview that the US is engaging in “tough talk” with China about its alleged cyber attacks on America.<\/div>
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Mr Obama told ABC News some, but not all, hacking originating from China was state sponsored, although he played down congressional talk of a cyber war.<\/div>
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He spoke a day after US intelligence chiefs said cyber attacks had replaced terrorism as the main security threat.<\/div>
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China denies such hacking and says it is the victim of such attacks.<\/div>
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Mr Obama was asked in the interview with ABC News, broadcast on Wednesday, about claims from US lawmakers that the scale of attacks on American firms and infrastructure amounted to a cyber “war” with China.<\/div>
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“You know, there’s a big difference between them engaging in cyber espionage or cyber attacks and obviously a hot war,” the president said.<\/div>
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“What is absolutely true is that we have seen a steady ramping up of cyber security threats. Some are state sponsored. Some are just sponsored by criminals.<\/div>
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“We’ve made it very clear to China and some other state actors that, you know, we expect them to follow international norms and abide by international rules.<\/div>
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“And we’ll have some pretty tough talk with them. We already have.”<\/div>
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China has long been suspected of a role in cyber attacks, prompting Pentagon warnings that America must guard against a “digital Pearl Harbor”. A US congressional report last year named China as “the most threatening actor in cyberspace”.<\/div>
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The issue has become a growing bone of contention between Washington and Beijing.<\/div>
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On Tuesday, US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate committee that cyber attacks and cyber espionage had supplanted terrorism as the top security threat facing the country.<\/div>
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A day earlier in New York, US National Security Advisor Tom Donilon called on Beijing to take steps to stop cyber crime.<\/div>
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Last month, a report from US security firm Mandiant said a unit of China’s People’s Liberation Army had mounted data raids on the computer systems of more than 140 mostly US-based organisations.<\/div>
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US state department officials have said hacking comes up “in virtually every meeting we have with Chinese officials”.<\/div>
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In January, the New York Times said it had been subject to cyber attacks from China, following the newspaper’s report on the wealth of outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao’s family.<\/div>
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