China rejected US accusations that it was trying to piracy the ongoing research in the United States to reach a vaccine against Covid-19, considering that it aims to "defame it", while Europe fell victim to the ongoing strength test between China and the United States in the UN Security Council on the "Covid" epidemic. -19 ».
The FBI has accused hackers, researchers and students linked to China of stealing information from colleges and public laboratories in the United States.
A statement by the FBI and the Electronic Security and Infrastructure Security Agency stated that "what China is doing to target these sectors constitutes a major threat to our country's response to Covid-19," without providing evidence or giving examples.
"China expresses its deep dissatisfaction and strong rejection of this American defamation," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Legian.
"Based on its proven track record, the United States has carried out the largest Internet theft operations worldwide," Zhao told a press conference. The latest US accusation would exacerbate the camp tension between US-China relations since the emergence of the new Corona virus in late 2019 in Wuhan, China.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic, many Chinese pharmaceutical companies have started work on a vaccine development, and at least three clinical trials have begun.
"China is at the forefront of ongoing research to find a vaccine and treatment for Covid-19, so it has more reason to be wary of stealing information over the Internet," Zhao Legian said.
For weeks, US President Donald Trump has accused the Chinese authorities of hiding the size of the epidemic and thus facilitating its spread. But Beijing denies and asserts that it has passed all information as quickly as possible to the World Health Organization and to other countries, including the United States.
On the other hand, Europe has fallen victim to the ongoing test of power between China and the United States in the UN Security Council on the Covid-19 epidemic, as it is divided between two draft resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the world to help countries witnessing conflicts to combat the emerging Corona virus.
On the one hand, France has been striving two months ago to wrest a settlement between China and the United States over a text it put forward with Tunisia in this regard, while Estonia and Germany on the other hand on Tuesday presented a competing draft resolution adopting the US position.
"Everyone knows who is behind the new draft," said a diplomat, who asked not to be named, criticizing the second text, as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the United Nations issue on Tuesday himself with his Estonian counterpart Urmas Rainsalo.
In an effort to break the impasse, Estonia, who holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council, and Germany proposed during the Tuesday meeting a competing text for the French-Tunisian text centered on the call to stop the hostilities without including any mention of the World Health Organization. For two months, China threatened to veto any text without any reference to the World Health Organization, while the United States threatened to block any text mentioning the United Nations agency, which accuses it of lack of transparency.
Beijing: The United States has carried out the largest online theft worldwide.