China has exposed US criticism of its internet powers, saying it could damage ties among the two countries.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Thursday for China to raise limitations on the internet.

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Mrs Clinton also pushed Beijing to examine Googles complaints that cyber attacks had originated in China.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said the US should ‘esteem the facts’ and stop making ‘unfounded accusations contrary China’.

In a wide-ranging speech in Washington, Mrs Clinton said the internet had been a ’source of tremendous progress’ in China but that any country which limited free access to information risked ‘walling themselves off from the advance of the next century’.

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Google said on 12 January that hackers had tried to infiltrate its software coding and the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights works, in a ‘highly sophisticated’ assault that originated from China.

Mrs Clinton called on Chinese authorities to examine the Google grievance of cyber attacks and to make the results free.

source: bbc