“Chinese state media lashed out at Google Inc, Apple Inc and other U.S. technology companies on Wednesday, calling on Beijing ‘to punish severely the pawns’ of the U.S. government for monitoring China and stealing secrets,” Paul Carsten reports for Reuters. “U.S. companies such as Yahoo Inc, Cisco Systems Inc , Microsoft Corp and Facebook Inc threaten the cyber-security of China and its Internet users, said the People’s Daily on its microblog, in comments echoed on the front page of the English-language China Daily.”
“It is not clear what sparked this latest round of vitriol, nor what information the U.S. firms are alleged to have stolen. But Chinese media have repeatedly attacked American tech companies for aiding the U.S. government’s cyber espionage since U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden revealed widespread spying programmes including PRISM,” Carsten reports. “Under PRISM, the NSA seized data from companies such as Google and Apple, according to revelations made by Snowden a year ago.”
“Chinese state-owned firms have since begun dispensing with the services of U.S. companies such as IBM Corp, Oracle Corp and Cisco in favour of domestic technology. As a result, Snowden’s revelations may cost U.S. companies billions of dollars, analysts say,” Carsten reports. “‘U.S. companies including Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. are all coordinating with the PRISM programme to monitor China,’ the People’s Daily said on its official microblog. ‘To resist the naked Internet hegemony, we will draw up international regulations, and strengthen technology safeguards, but we will also severely punish the pawns of the villain. The priority is strengthening penalties and punishments, and for anyone who steals our information, even though they are far away, we shall punish them!’ it said.”
“In December, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo and other Internet companies issued an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama and Congress to reform and introduce restrictions on surveillance activities,” Carsten reports. “In May, the U.S. Department of Justice charged five Chinese military officers with hacking U.S. companies to steal trade secrets. The indictment sparked outrage in China and added urgency to Beijing’s efforts to promote the development of local information technology companies.”
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