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Published on Jun 26, 2015
Washington’s claims that China has conducted cyber attacks against the US are used to pump billions of dollars into the American cyber command, says an analyst.
These cyber attack claims “are served to pump billions and billions of dollars into the US cyber command to create this offensive technology,” said Bruce Gagnon of Global Network against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.
“It’s the usual US MO, the method of operation, modus operandi… to lie, accuse others of doing things and then do it themselves,” Gagnon told Press TV on Thursday.
“Claiming repeatedly that China or Russia or anyone else has constantly attacked the United States really helps insure that more and more profits go into the cyber warfare program of the US and the allied corporations that are running it,” he added.
Ties between the two countries have soured after Washington accused Beijing of cyber spying recently.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that cyber hacking has threatened US security and "harmed American businesses."
On Thursday, director of national intelligence James Clapper accused China of being "the leading suspect" in a massive data breach of US government personnel files, saying Washington "continues to investigate." Gagnon said “it’s interesting that the US continually accuses China of cyber attacks when in fact it’s the United States through its cyber warfare and cyber command that leads the world in developing these cyberspace warfare technologies, in fact, the cyber command and the NSA, the National Security Agency, that is always spying around the world, share combined headquarters today.” “How is it possible to actually verify these claims by the United States that China has done a cyber attack," he asked, noting "there is really no way to verify any of it, the United States could be making it up and who will ever know the difference.”
