Hillary Clinton slams China while Chinese bash U.S. allegations of hacking

During an Independence Day campaign rally in New Hampshire, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton accused the Chinese of stealing corporate secrets and pilfering U.S. government information. She received a chuckle from the assembled crowd on Saturday when she said that the Chinese were trying to "hack into everything that doesn't move in America."

But Chinese government officials on Sunday, through their state-run newspaper Xinhua, claim that there is a new wave of "China-bashing" in the U.S. by political leaders, the latest accusation being that China is responsible for the recent hacking into U.S. federal computer networks. The news service's editorial board claims these unfounded accusations are may have harmful effects on future Sino-U.S. relations.

In the recent case involving the hacking of government computer systems, the Obama administration's defenders said the People's Republic of China (PRC) is at the very top of the list of suspects .... http://www.examiner.com