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China Denies Involvement in Google Cyber Attacks

On January 12, 2010, Google said that hackers from Beijing had tried to hack into software and e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. China denies and is quite angry about these claims and states that if Google really does remove its servers from China, like it says it may, then it can cause major tension between themselves and America.

Sources: BBC News: [] Cnet News: []

Similarities: One similarity between these two articles is that both mentioned an unidentified spokesperson telling Xinhua, a news agency, that the Google claims on Beijing are "groundless." Another similarity is that both stated that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech on Thursday talking about how Beijing shouldn't just dismiss the problem without investigating first. One last similarity is that both articles stated that as a result of these incidents that Google may withdraw their company from China.

Differences: One difference is the headlines of the two articles. BBC News' article's headline is "China rejects claim of cyber attacks on Google" while Cnet News' is "China denies involvement in Google cyberattacks". I think that this difference is significant because the Cnet headline sounds biased by using the words "denies" and "involvement" which makes it sound like China is already guilty instead of BBC's which makes it sound unbiased and just facts. Another difference is the pictures and videos that came with the articles. The BBC News' article came with both a picture of a man walking by a Google sign in China and a video of Hillary Clinton relating to the speech she gave while the Cnet News' article had just a picture of the Google logo with a China flag as a background. One last difference between these two articles is that the Cnet News' article had a statement from China stating that the U.S.'s stance on this situation could affect the relations between the two countries while BBC News' had no mention of this. This is important because it either shows how China is being very defensive of what happened and trying to threaten the U.S. or how China is trying to show the U.S. that they had no part in this and are offended by the thought.

My Opinion: I can't give my opinion on what will happen between Google and China since I don't know whether or not China really did have a part in the hackings. If so, then I think it would be smart of Google to remove themselves from there, as to insure that it doesn't happen again. If not, then I think that it isn't very good for the relationship between America and China since we are backing Google.