ESPIONAGE ALLEGATIONS: China accuses US & its allies of ‘fabricating facts’

Chinese authorities have strongly rejected economic espionage allegations levelled against it by the United States and some of its allies.

After accusing Washington of “fabricating facts”, Beijing says hasn’t taken part in or backed commercial secrets’ hacking, urging the US to drop charges against two Chinese men identified as Zhu Hua and Zhang Jianguo.

In a statement on Friday, the Chinese foreign ministry said it resolutely opposed the allegations.

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“The Chinese government has never participated in or supported anyone in any way in stealing trade secrets,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said, calling the accusations a “deliberate defamation” pulled “out of thin air”.

The comments by China comes a day after Britain, Australia and New Zealand on Thursday joined the US in chastising China over what they called a global campaign of cyber-enabled commercial intellectual property theft.

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