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Chang Wanquan: Hacker actions never supported by Chinese military

(China Military Online) 08:33, August 22, 2013

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WASHINGTON DC, August 20 (ChinaMil) -- Chang Wanquan, state councilor and defense minister of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) who is on an official friendly visit to the U.S., expressed China's stand on network security issues by using the word “oppose” for five times on August 19, 2013 to stress that the Chinese military has never supported any hacker actions.

Chang Wanquan met with U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on the same day at the Pentagon and then met the press. This is the first time for Chang Wanquan to visit the Pentagon since he took the post as Chinese defense minister in March 2013.

Chang Wanquan expressed at the joint press conference that the cyberspace is a new field and cyberspace security threats have become a worldwide problem. China is one of the major victims of hacker attacks, suffering serious threats from network attacks.

Chang Wanquan stressed that China always advocates peaceful utilization of cyberspace, opposes arms race in cyberspace, opposes hostile actions and threats by using the information-based technologies, opposes making use of superiorities in network resources and technologies to weaken other countries' cyberspace self-control and development rights and opposes double standards on network security.

"The Chinese government always firmly opposes and fights against cybercrimes according to law. The Chinese military has never supported any hacker actions," said Chang Wanquan.

Chang Wanquan pointed out that China and the U.S. should jointly explore ways to strengthen their cooperation in safeguarding network security instead of unwarranted suspicion and mutual recriminations. He said that the two sides exchanged views on network security issues during his meeting with Chuck Hagel and will work together to study and solve the issues in the future.

During the fifth round of China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue more than a month ago, the China-U.S. network working group held its first meeting. The two sides agreed to take pragmatic actions, strengthen dialogues on cyberspace international rules and enhance coordination and cooperation between the Internet emergency-response centers of the two countries, according to the circular after the meeting.

Both the Chinese and the U.S. sides agreed that the network working group is the main platform for the bilateral talks on the network issues. China and the U.S. will discuss more cooperation measures in future talks and carry out continuous dialogues on network issues. To this end, China and the U.S. agreed to hold another network working group meeting before the end of 2013.

（Editor：YanMeng、Zhang Qian）