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China Claims "Massive Damage" From Hacking

China Claims It was reported earlier this month that United States officials were blaming Chinese forces for an infiltration into Pentagon-based computers, a hacking that resulted in an internal network crashing for more than a week.

Now China is claiming it is actually the victim, saying its "core, vital departments" have been infiltrated by hackers causing "massive damage" to its networks. The Chinese government's response is, perhaps unsurprisingly, to call for even more rigid controls on the online rights of its citizens: This means narrower filters and more blocking of online content, and expanded spying of Chinese citizens' online habits.

This reaction has many China experts from the West believing that these claims of computer hacking are completely fabricated, that they are simply excuses made up to enable the Chinese government to put tighter reigns on Internet usage by its citizens.

China has already greatly restricted and censored online content with its "Great Firewall". It sounds like that wall is only going to get higher.

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