Cyberattacks a growing irritant in US-China ties
Wednesday May 8, 2013, 12:06 PM
BY CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
Associated Press
BEIJING — Signs are growing that the sustained surge in cyberattacks emanating from China is imperiling its relations with the U.S., lending urgency to fledgling efforts by both governments to engage on the issue.
The Pentagon this week said China appeared to be cyberspying against the U.S. government, the first time it has made such an assertion in its annual report on Chinese military power. A bill introduced in the Senate on Tuesday would require the president to block imports of products using stolen U.S. technology or made by companies implicated in computer theft.
Washington’s sudden focus on Chinese hacking comes after rising complaints from U.S. businesses about theft of trade secrets. Amid growing evidence that the People’s Liberation Army and other state-backed groups are behind the infiltrations, Beijing’s statements that the cyberhacking allegations are groundless — repeated anew Wednesday by the Chinese Defense Ministry — are being broadly dismissed.
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