U.S. covers up its own misdeeds by accusing China of cyber theft
By Zhong Sheng
Some U.S.
politicians have really racked their brains to trump up charges against China. Recently,
they once again framed China by saying the country hacked U.S. computers and
stole U.S. trade secrets, staging a farce with new wording.
The large-scale
and organized cyber espionage activities conducted by relevant U.S. departments
on foreign governments, enterprises and individuals are not a secret at all,
making Uncle Sam the largest empire of hackers – a globally recognized fact.
However, these
politicians are disguising the U.S. as a victim of cyber-attacks, trying to
cover up its own misdeeds by shifting the blame. How laughable it is!
The “achievements”
made by the U.S. in cyber theft have no parallel in the whole world.
Edward Snowden revealed that
the notorious PRISM surveillance program of the National Security Agency (NSA)
of the U.S. was running 24 hours a day for unauthorized monitoring of emails
and social media communication. Even some state leaders and heads of
international organizations had long been secretly monitored by U.S. intelligence
agencies.
In 2017, WikiLeaks
disclosed nearly 9,000 confidential documents, revealing that the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), with its unparalleled hacking capability,
hacked into various smart devices including cellphones, computers, and smart TVs.
According to
reports by Western media, 90 percent of the world’s communication was under
U.S. surveillance.
What’s worth
more attention is that the U.S. military and intelligence agencies are building
the world’s largest cyber arsenal that is as deadly as
nuclear weapons, triggering a global cyber arms race.
In 2009, the
U.S. military established the U.S. Cyber Command, and elevated it to the 10th
unified combatant command of the
country in 2017.
In addition, information
disclosed by cyber security organizations indicated that the two advanced
persistent threats (APTs) groups, Equation and Project Sauron,
which are considered to be at Thanos level in the industry, are both supported
by NSA behind the scene.
As indicated by a
recent annual report on China’s cyber security published by China’s National
Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT), most of the cyber-attacks
China received were from the U.S., and the number kept growing.
In 2018, 3,325
IP addresses in the U.S., up 43 percent from 2017, planted Trojans in 3,607
websites on the Chinese mainland.
Cyber theft and
hacker attack are just all-too-common practices of the U.S., as substantial
evidences suggest.
Who on earth is launching
frequent cyber-attacks and stealing secrets around the globe? Who is the first opening
the “Pandora’s box” of enhancing cyber warfare capabilities? Facts speak louder
than words, and the truth is self-evident.
As it is written
in ancient Chinese political and philosophical text Guanzi, “Nothing is more
beneficial than stability, and nothing is more detrimental than chaos.” Cyber
security concerns the common interests of various countries and needs to be
jointly safeguarded by the international community.
China has a
consistent and clear stance on cyber security. Chinese President Xi Jinping has
stressed on many occasions that both commercial cyber theft
and hacking against government networks are crimes that must be punished in
accordance with law and relevant international treaties.
As a firm
defender of cyber security, China has never engaged in any form of cyber theft
or supported anyone in stealing trade secrets.
China is also an
active advocate for international cooperation on cyber security. The country
has proposed four principles that must be upheld in order to make progress in
the transformation of the global Internet governance system, put forward five
proposals with an aim of jointly building a community of shared future in
cyberspace, and actively carried out international cooperation on cyber
security via bilateral and multilateral channels.
In recent years,
China has jointly established specialized dialogue mechanisms with the U.S.,
the UK, and the European Union (EU) to boost cyber security cooperation, and put
forward constructive proposals for promoting international cooperation on
cyberspace through multilateral mechanisms including the UN and Group of 20
(G20).
The absurd
argument of the so-called “cyber theft” cooked up by U.S. politicians to smear
China revealed their evil intentions. However, such arguments, no matter how
they are reworded or disguised, cannot withstand even a single blow in the face
of irrefutable facts and would only serve as a butt of a joke for the
international community.
(Zhong Sheng is
a pen name often used by People's Daily
to express its views on foreign policy.)
U.S. covers up its own misdeeds by accusing China of cyber theft
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