The likelihood of a cyber war between the United States and China was dismissed by U.S. State Department officials in a press statement issued on Wednesday. The State Department is calling for the building bilateral trust to avoid such a troubling scenario.
In early 2011, there were several reports that the Chinese government had launched cyber attacks against the U.S. with allegations of Chinese intrusions of the web sites of U.S. military contractors.
There were also allegations that China illegal penetrated the Google e-mail accounts of several high-level U.S. officials. Government officials in China has denied the allegations of government involvement, but did not comment further.
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