China says no cyber warfare between it, US

There is no cyber warfare taking place between China and the United States, a senior Chinese official said, after weeks of friction over accusations that China may have launched a string of Internet hacking attacks.

The two countries might suffer from cyber attacks, but they were in no way directed by either government, Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai told a small group of foreign reporters ahead of a meeting with U.S. officials in Hawaii this weekend. "I want to clear something up: there are no contradictions between China and the United States" on the issue of hacking, Cui said. "Though hackers attack the U.S. Internet and China's Internet, I believe they do not represent any country," he added. Both countries were in fact already discussing the problem of hacking during their regular strategic consultations, Cui said.