{"id":38480,"date":"2024-04-03T14:48:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T14:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38480"},"modified":"2024-04-03T14:48:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T14:48:58","slug":"china-hits-back-at-us-uk-for-sanctions-on-espionage-hacks-as-coordinated-pressure-on-beijing-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38480","title":{"rendered":"China hits back at US, UK for sanctions on espionage hacks as coordinated pressure on Beijing grows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CNN:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beijing has lashed out at the United States and the United Kingdom for imposing sanctions over alleged Chinese government-backed cyberattacks, calling the Western allies\u2019 move an act of \u201cpolitical manipulation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US and the UK&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/03\/25\/politics\/chinese-hackers-accusations-espionage-campaign\/index.html\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;Monday a set of criminal charges and sanctions against seven Chinese hackers for allegedly conducting sweeping attacks on behalf of China\u2019s civilian intelligence agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The yearslong campaign allegedly targeted American officials, senators, journalists and companies \u2013 including Pentagon contractors \u2013&nbsp;as well as British parliamentarians, the UK\u2019s election watchdog and members of the European Parliament, affecting millions of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Zealand also weighed in on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/release\/parliamentary-network-breached-prc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accusing<\/a> state-sponsored Chinese hackers of launching \u201cmalicious cyber activity\u201d against the country\u2019s parliament in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accusations of cyber espionage have long been a major point of friction between Beijing and Washington, with the US indicting a series of Chinese hackers in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The public accusations from three members of the so-called Five Eyes intelligence alliance show key Western democracies are now taking a more concerted \u2013 and coordinated \u2013 stand against what they view as unacceptable levels of hacking and espionage by Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a news conference Tuesday, China\u2019s Foreign Ministry lashed out at the US and the UK, accusing them of \u201chyping up the so-called cyberattacks by China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is purely political manipulation. China is strongly dissatisfied with this and firmly opposes it,\u201d ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said, adding China has made solemn representations to both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: Beijing has lashed out at the United States and the United Kingdom for imposing sanctions over alleged Chinese government-backed cyberattacks, calling the Western allies\u2019 move an act of \u201cpolitical manipulation.\u201d The US and the UK&nbsp;announced&nbsp;Monday a set of criminal charges and sanctions against seven Chinese hackers for allegedly conducting sweeping attacks on behalf of China\u2019s civilian intelligence agency. The yearslong campaign allegedly targeted American officials, senators, journalists and companies \u2013 including Pentagon contractors \u2013&nbsp;as well as British parliamentarians, the UK\u2019s election watchdog and members of the European Parliament, affecting millions of people. New Zealand also weighed in on Tuesday,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38482,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38480\/revisions\/38482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}