GLEN: Hillary Clinton accused China on Saturday of “trying to hack into everything that doesn’t move in America” and stealing government information, in strongly worded comments likely to irk Beijing.

Clinton, a former secretary of state who is making another tilt at the White House in 2016, pulled no punches in remarks to Democratic supporters at a campaign event in New Hampshire.

James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, said last month that China was the “leading suspect” in a massive breach affecting personal data of millions of US government employees.

Beijing dismissed the charge as “absurd logic”. Clinton, the current frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said: “They’re trying to hack into everything that doesn’t move in America... stealing huge amounts of government information all looking for an advantage”.

Published in Dawn, July 6th, 2015

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