US warned of China 'cyber-spying'

China has stepped up computer espionage against the US government and American businesses, according to an influential Washington congressional panel. China is stealing amounts of information from the United states. The creater of this investigation panel said that the leaking of critical information makes the US very open for other people who have bad intentions. The US government is afraid that China is trying to manipulate the US by using the cyberspace. It alleges that the Chinese are looking for diplomatic and military secrets in government databases, and potentially lucrative industrial secrets held by American corporations.

My oppinion about the 'cyber-spying' is a bit soft. I think the internet and the whole cyberspace is a very open thing and a lot of people are able to get information from it. Because China is a country that has a bit of a background with the US, people are exaggertating the political content that this espionage would bring. The US is, in my oppinion, trying to put china in a bad light. Because of the expanding and more open cyberspace, it is not possible to exstract critical information from the WorldWideWeb.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7740483.stm