{"id":25401,"date":"2020-05-15T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/coronavirus-china-rejects-u-s-charge-of-vaccine-research-theft\/"},"modified":"2020-05-15T07:30:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T02:00:06","slug":"coronavirus-china-rejects-u-s-charge-of-vaccine-research-theft-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25401","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus | China rejects U.S. charge of vaccine research theft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Hackers are trying to steal data on COVID-19 cures\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/coronavirus-china-rejects-us-charge-of-vaccine-research-theft\/article31585826.ece\">Agence France Press<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beijing accused the U.S. on Thursday of smearing China after Washington alleged Chinese hackers were attempting to steal research on developing a vaccine against the coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The claims have added fuel to tensions between the global superpowers, who have traded barbs over the origin of the pandemic that has killed 3,00,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. authorities said on Wednesday that Chinese hackers were trying to obtain&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;data on treatments and vaccines, warning the effort involved Chinese government-affiliated groups and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Significant threat\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said China\u2019s efforts posed a \u201csignificant threat\u201d to the U.S. response to COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChina expresses strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to such smearing,\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular press briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJudging from past records, the U.S. has carried out the largest cybertheft operations worldwide,\u201d Mr. Zhao told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stressed that Beijing has significant achievements of its own in the fight against the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China is \u201calso leading the world in COVID-19 vaccine research and treatment\u201d, and therefore has more reason to worry about cyber espionage itself, Mr. Zhao said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that the country has cracked down on cyber-hacking, and that any cyber attack hindering the global fight against the pandemic should be condemned by people around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s reference to COVID-19 as the \u201cPlague from China\u201d, Mr. Zhao said the U.S. should stop blaming and discrediting others, and focus on their own prevention and control work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers are trying to steal data on COVID-19 cures\u2019 Agence France Press Beijing accused the U.S. on Thursday of smearing China after Washington alleged Chinese hackers were attempting to steal research on developing a vaccine against the coronavirus (COVID-19). The claims have added fuel to tensions between the global superpowers, who have traded barbs over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}