China has denounced US criticism of its internet powers, saying it could mischief ties among both countries.

American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Thursday for China to raise limitations on the internet.

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Mrs Clinton also urged Beijing to examine Googles complaints that cyber attacks had originated in China.

Ma Zhaoxu – the Foreign Ministry spokesman said the US should ‘respect the facts’ and stop making ‘groundless impeachs contrary China’.

In a wide-ranging speech in Washington, Mrs Clinton said the internet had been a ’source of enormous progress’ in China but that any country which restricted free access to information risked ‘walling themselves off from the progress of the next century’.

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Google said on 12 January that hackers had tried to infiltrate its software coding and the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights works, in a ‘highly sophisticated’ attack that originated from China.

Mrs Clinton called on Chinese authorities to examine the Google grievance of cyber attacks and to make the results available.

source: bbc