China Denies Hacking U.S. Electricity Grid
The Chinese government Denies any involvement in the reported infiltration of US electric grid systems. Xinhua news agency quoted Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu as saying that any sort of involvement from China in the incident “doesn’t exist at all.”
The denial follows a report in the Wall Street Journal which claimed that agents from China and Russia along with several other countries had infiltrated the computer systems charged with managing electricity in the US and left behind software payloads which could be used to control or disable electric grids in the US.
Jiang Yu said at a regular press conference, “We hope that the concerned media will prudently deal with some groundless remarks, especially those concerning accusations against China.”
“I have also noticed that the U.S. White House had denied the media reports,” she said.
A report in the state-run China Daily cited Chinese experts who rejected the so-called “China threat” theory and tied it to the financial crisis.
“Chinese scholars Wednesday rebutted US’s allegations that China was engaged in spying and forging secret nuclear deals with foreign countries, saying these were induced by the perceived ‘China threat’ worrying Washington,” the report said. “U.S. politicians have been debating the country’s foreign and military strategy shifts in the wake of the financial crisis, and some took the opportunity to play up the ‘threat’ posed by China for their own gains, experts in Beijing said.”