China yesterday denied any state involvement in cyber attacks on Google and defended Internet censorship as necessary, as a row with Washington over the U.S. firm's threat to leave the country rumbled on. The statements from Beijing, carried in twin interviews on the state news agency Xinhua, came after the White House said Barack Obama, the U.S. President, was "troubled" by Google's claims that it had been attacked by China-based hackers. The U.S. Internet giant has threatened to abandon its Chinese search engine, and perhaps end all operations in the country over the cyber attacks.
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