CCIA report reveals US double standards, hypocrisy on cyber security: Chinese foreign ministry

by Xin Qi, Gu Siyu

On April 11, the China Cybersecurity Industry Alliance issued a report entitled Review of Cyberattacks from US Intelligence Agencies- Based on Global Cybersecurity Communities' Analyses. Organized by time and event, the report is divided into 13 parts to detail the malicious behavior of the United States in conducting long-term cyber attacks on other countries.

At a regular press conference on April 12, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin noted that the report provides a systematic account of the history and typical cases of cyber attacks undertaken by relevant departments of the US government and their negative impact on global cyber security and contains a full list of shocking revelations.

He also cited five cases including US intelligence agencies' cyber attacks on key infrastructure in other countries, development of cyber attack weapons and leakage, indiscriminate cyber theft and monitoring, implantation of backdoor pollution standards and supply chain sources, and interference and suppression of normal international technical exchanges and cooperation.

These cases show once again that the US is the origin of cyber warfare, the biggest spreader of advanced cyber weapons and the biggest global cyber thief. He said, adding that the US has been holding double standards to ensure its cyber supremacy. Wang noted that safeguarding cybersecurity is a shared responsibility of all countries, and it is in the international community’s common interest to end the US’s lawlessness on cyber theft and reveal its hypocrisy on cyber security.