Attacks on Google denied by Chinese govt
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Monday, 25, Jan 2010 11:17
By Sarah Garrod
China's government has denied any involvement in cyber attacks on the search engine Google, describing the accusations as "groundless".
State-run news agency Xinhua reported claims Beijing was behind the alleged attacks were unfounded, following a threat from Google to withdraw from the country.
"The accusation that the Chinese government participated in cyber attack, either in an explicit or inexplicit way, is groundless and aims to denigrate China. We firmly opposed to that," a spokesman of the ministry of industry and information technology told the news agency in an interview on Sunday.
"China's policy on internet safety is transparent and consistent," he added.
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has called on Beijing to investigate the matter after Google reportedly tracked attacks to hackers in China.
The Chinese government spokesman added on Sunday: "Online information which incites subversion of state power, violence and terrorism or includes pornographic contents are explicitly prohibited in the laws and regulations.
"China has full justification to deal with these illegal and harmful online contents."