The move could throw U. S.-China relations further into jeopardy.
The U. S. Department of Justice has charged two Chinese hackers with trying to steal coronavirus research as part of a wider campaign targeting trade secrets, a move likely to escalate U. S. tensions with China.
“China has now taken its place, alongside Russia, Iran and North Korea, in that shameful club of nations that provide a safe haven for cyber criminals in exchange for those criminals being ‘on call’ to work for the benefit of the state, here to feed the Chinese Communist party’s insatiable hunger for American and other non-Chinese companies’ hard-earned intellectual property, including COVID-19 research,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers, the Justice Department’s top national security official, said in a statement.
The indictment against the Chinese hackers threatens to further escalate U.
