BEIJING — China delivered a bristling response on Monday to the United States’ demand that it investigate recent attacks on American computers from Chinese soil, saying that any suggestion that it conducted or condoned the hackers’ intrusions was “groundless and aims to denigrate China.”
The comment, in a published interview with a government spokesman, was part of a broadside in China’s state-run press on Monday that cast the United States as a cyberhegemon, trying to dominate the global information flow by meddling in Chinese Internet policies.
A brace of interviews and news articles placed in major state newspapers and on many prominent Web sites underscored the chill in public exchanges between the governments since Jan. 12, when Google threatened to leave China unless Beijing stopped censoring its search results.
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