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Beijing - China on Friday said US calls for internet freedom were "harmful" to ties, after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticised Chinese censorship of the web.
"We firmly oppose such words and deeds which go against the facts and are harmful to China-US relations," foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement posted on his ministry's website.
"We urge the United States to respect facts and stop using the so-called internet freedom issue to criticise China unreasonably," he said.
Ma said China hoped both sides would "respect each other's core interests and major concerns, properly handle differences and sensitive issues to maintain the healthy and steady development of Sino-US relations."
His comments came after Clinton on Thursday urged China to conduct a thorough probe into cyber-attacks on Google and other US companies and said Chinese censorship of the internet was increasing.
Clinton made the call in a speech in which she reiterated US support for "a single internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas."
China and the United States are locked in a row over Google's threat to leave China over censorship and recent cyber-attacks, which the internet giant said appeared aimed at cracking the email accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
- AFP