Snowden’s Claims Complicate U.S.-China Ties
The debate over cyber security between the U.S. and China could shift following claims by a former U.S. contractor that Washington has hacked computers in Hong Kong and mainland China since 2009, complicating the potential for warming ties following last weekend’s presidential summit.
In an interview published online late Wednesday by Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post newspaper, 29-year-old Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the U.S. National Security Agency, said he believed there had been more than 61,000 NSA hacking operations globally, including hundreds in Hong Kong and on the Chinese mainland.