After warning of strained US-China relations, China's government has issued statements denying any state involvement in the cyberattacks on Google and defending its online censorship.
The statements, issued on Monday Beijing time and carried on the state news agency Xinhua, come nearly two weeks after Google threatened to pull out of the country after finding that email accounts belonging to human-rights activists had been compromised.
Any "accusation that the Chinese government participated in [any] cyberattack, either in an explicit or inexplicit way, is groundless and aims to denigrate China," an unidentified spokesman for China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology told Xinhua. "We [are] firmly opposed to that."
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