China lashes out at US, British intelligence services

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

BEIJING (AP) — The United States is “the biggest threat to world peace, stability and development,” China said Thursday, continuing its sharp rhetoric in response to U.S. accusations of Chinese spying and threats to the international order.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s comments came a day after the head of the FBI and the leader of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency raised fresh alarms about the Chinese government, warning business leaders that Beijing is determined to steal their technology for competitive gain.

The heightened tone comes ahead of a meeting Saturday between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations’ ministers summit in Bali, Indonesia.

“The relevant U.S. politician has been playing up the so-called China threat to smear and attack China,” Zhao told reporters at a daily briefing when asked about FBI Director Christopher Wray’s comments reaffirming longstanding concerns in denouncing economic espionage and hacking operations by China as well as the Chinese government’s efforts to stifle dissent abroad.



FILE - Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian gestures during a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing on July 6, 2022. The United States is “the biggest threat to world peace, stability and development," China said Thursday, July 7, continuing its sharp rhetoric in response to U.S. accusations of Chinese spying and threats to the international order.(AP Photo/Liu Zheng, File)


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[no_hypocrisy]

1. OK, what's the story behind the story?

Did China get caught spying in the U.S.?

[msfiddlestix]

2. +1

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Again. Or, still. Nothing new. nt

[inwiththenew]

6. The head of the FBI and MI5 just called China the biggest long-term threat

to our economic and national security.

[link:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-62064506|

[nowforever]

4. No espionage in company's outsourcing

U.S. company's have outsourced their manufacturing to China for the past 40years. They have been handing them the blueprints to numerous products they want built. China is just being a good partner...we give them the instructions and they follow them. If you don't want China getting your technology then don't send it to them and don't cry foul when they actually adopt it. Without China manufacturing our goods and shipping bulk materials we don't store here our store shelves would be empty and Amazon would go out of business.

[turbinetree]

5. Hong Kong......enough said.....

[Calista241]

7. I guess that basically cancels the whole removing China's tariffs thing we had going. n/t

[KS Toronado]

8. I vote for Russia being the biggest threat to world peace