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The strategy presents a potentially far more
muscular role for the U.S. military's cyber warriors than the
Pentagon was willing to acknowledge in its last strategy
rollouts in 2011 and singles out threats from Russia, China,
Iran and North Korea.
China is frequently accused by the United States and its allies
of engaged in widespread hacking attacks, charges Beijing always
vociferously denies.
Defence Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said that as the
world's most technologically advanced nation when it came to the
Internet, the United States was only worsening tension over
cybersecurity with its new strategy.
"This will further exacerbate contradictions and up the ante on
the Internet arms race. We are concerned and worried about
this," Geng said.
The United States should stop blackening China's name when it
came to cybersecurity, and was in any case hypocritical in its
criticism because of the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism
snooping program, he added.
The militaries of the world's two largest economies have had a
rocky relationship despite efforts by both sides to improve
ties.
Geng also took aim at recent drills between the United States
and the Philippines in the South China Sea, a strategic waterway
90 percent of which is claimed by China.
Large-scale drills will only create tension and are not helpful
for regional peace and stability, he said.
"In the present situation, with the holding of such large-scale
drills, we have to ask, who is it really who is creating
regional tensions, and who is it really threatening regional
peace and stability?"
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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