Chinese Media Urges Govt to Get More Info From GOP Donor Edward Snowden

[Cali_Democrat]

China today said Edward Snowden's revelations have proved that it was one of the major victims of cyber attacks, as the official media here pressed the government to milk "solid information" from the whistleblower and use him as a "card" to negotiate with the US.

Still ambivalent whether China would permit Hong Kong to extradite Snowden, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said she has no information on the issue.

She however pointed to China's repeated stand on cyber theft, that "it is one of the major victims of cyber attacks".

"What has happened recently has also shown that China is indeed one of the major victims of cyber attacks", she told a media briefing, indirectly referring to Snowden's allegations of hacker attacks on China by the US in an interview to Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post.

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