government’s huge electronic eavesdropping organization, called the Office of Tailored Access Operations, or TAO, has successfully penetrated Chinese computer and telecommunications systems for almost 15 years, generating some of the best and most reliable intelligence information about what is going on inside the People’s Republic of China. According to a number of confidential sources, a highly secretive unit of the National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. It turns out that the Chinese government’s allegations are essentially correct.
media seems to have bothered to ask the White House if there is a modicum of truth to the Chinese charges. Snowden, who is now living in Hong Kong, only add fuel to Beijing’s position.īut Washington never publicly responded to Huang’s allegation, and nobody in the U.S. This weekend’s revelations about the National Security Agency’s PRISM and Verizon metadata collection from a 29-year-old former CIA undercover operative named Edward J. When the latest allegation of Chinese cyber-espionage was leveled in late May in a front-page Washington Post article, which alleged that hackers employed by the Chinese military had stolen the blueprints of over three dozen American weapons systems, the Chinese government’s top Internet official, Huang Chengqing, shot back that Beijing possessed “mountains of data” showing that the United States has engaged in widespread hacking designed to steal Chinese government secrets. government of hypocrisy and have alleged that Washington is also actively engaged in cyber-espionage. Senior Chinese officials have publicly accused the U.S. According to a diplomatic source in Washington, the Chinese government was even angrier that the White House leaked the new agenda item to the press before Washington bothered to tell Beijing about it. According to a Chinese diplomat in Washington who spoke in confidence, Beijing was furious about the sudden elevation of cybersecurity and Chinese espionage on the meeting’s agenda. government, military, and commercial secrets. Then, two weeks ago, White House officials leaked to the press that Obama intended to raise privately with Xi the highly contentious issue of China’s widespread use of computer hacking to steal U.S. Sino-American economic relations, climate change, and the growing threat posed by North Korea were supposed to dominate the discussions.
According to diplomatic sources, the issue of cybersecurity was not one of the key topics to be discussed at the summit. When the agenda for the meeting at the Sunnylands estate outside Palm Springs, California, was agreed to several months ago, both parties agreed that it would be a nice opportunity for President Xi, who assumed his post in March, to discuss a wide range of security and economic issues of concern to both countries. But what Obama probably neglected to mention is that he has his own hacker army, and it has burrowed its way deep, deep into China’s networks. military and commercial secrets, but Xi pushed back at the “shirt-sleeves” summit, noting that China, too, was the recipient of cyber-espionage. The media has focused at length on China’s aggressive attempts to electronically steal U.S. We know that the two leaders spoke at length about the topic du jour - cyber-espionage - a subject that has long frustrated officials in Washington and is now front and center with the revelations of sweeping U.S.
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President Barack Obama sat down for a series of meetings with China’s newly appointed leader, Xi Jinping.
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