They would be stupid to admit it anyway.

CHINA has denied a report that its military had successfully hacked into the Pentagon's computer network in June forcing the shutdown of a part of the computer service for a week.

A Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Jiang Yu, dismissed accusations by current and former US officials as reported in London's Financial Times yesterday that the incursion was traced with "very high level of confidence … trending towards total certainty" to the People's Liberation Army.

Ms Jiang said the accusations were "groundless" and a demonstration of an old cold war mentality. Repeating comments she made after the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, raised similar concerns about the infiltration of German government systems with the Premier, Wen Jiabao, in Beijing, Ms Jiang said China opposed hacking and was frequently itself a victim of cyber attacks.

"The Chinese Government has consistently opposed and vigorously attacked according to the law all internet-wrecking crimes, including hacking," she said. Beijing has devoted much of its defence budget to developing more advanced technology, including computer capabilities.

The US President, George Bush, is scheduled to meet the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, in Sydney while the two leaders are here for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit.

The Financial Times reported that the Pentagon was investigating what data had been taken, and a source told the paper that most of it was probably unclassified.

While the Pentagon declined to say who was behind the hacking, which led to the shutdown of a computer system serving the office of the Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, officials said it was China's People's Liberation Army.

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What did theu accomplish? Let the US know that the systems were not that safe. Could it be part of the New Cold War.

The U.S. is trying to downplay the situation a little by saying it wasn't highly classified info but still, they were hacked.

They,m the Chinese, could still gain intel from the e-mails. So any hack job is a major thing, IMO.

I don't know much about hacking but someone could be testing the waters for a much more serious cyber attack.

Russians probe defenses with planes, Chiunese do it with 'puters, it is all part of the game.

wasn't American government or Army trying to attack the defense systems of other countries? Since American side can do these things, why other countries can not do?
As fas as I know, American has many spies and hackers all over the world, steal information and message not only from rivals, but also from friendly countries, such as Britain, because it seems that she do not believe anybody but herself.

Thus, it is competition and rivalry. Friendship among countries is just kidding. Accusing China for the incursion is just a politic technique. The main goal is to deface the image of China. Because we know Chinese government will not compensate US government even if China did this kind of attacking.

adolescents with nothing better to do have hacked us-----many times----seems to me we're not employing the best programmers, eh? china does a fair enough job of defacing her own image, btw...

I think if one guy is dirty, he has no right to say other guys not clean, especially when that guy is the dirtiest one in the world.

ALL governments are consumed by self interest---All governments are guilty of oppression and cruelty---to say any are less dirty is ludicrous---havent you heard?--politics is a dirty game...

According to such, down, the world is Chinese sooner or later. That we are best because of China thinks of and USA develops the economic cooperation simultaneous, makes the Chinese ally realize that China now already can not defend their ally's benefit , that using the country who thinks that the strength contends with USA other drawing support from China splits out Chinese Bund , makes their relation break up by the fact that ally's attack acting , making China maintain neutrality to China,makes their consciousness have no way to unite, thereby can only cling to USA. But USA can draw support from China and homeland relation aggravating is in progress to Chinese peaceful evolution. One aspect disintegrates away the Chinese threat in Asian and host position , unceasingly, that one aspect uses their teenager's thought rebels against the tradition that they unite , makes them egoistic. The messenger world unites thereby within west regime. This good way being really achieving two things at one stroke.

The world must have the leading factor country and govern the country anyhow , be not that the eastern country is the Western countries. China is a threat: China has wanted to develop the economy , has developed thereupon. Think of the position having arranged the world , thereupon, having controlled USA , having consolidated China with economy foreign trade in Asian. Capitalism doctrine has implacable contradiction with public property. Be that social nature decides. Therefore China and early USA party war. After China is big and powerful, the certain meeting leading factor world replaces USA. Than USA waiting for Chinese queen war big and powerful, why do not take advantage of China not having developed time war big and powerful now? Do abandon politics benefit because of seeking trade benefit right away?

If being able to unite Korea, military base founding USA in Korea and , all being able to threaten China and Russian directly like that right away, USA troops can land to fight directly from Korea to the Chinese native country right away. But dispatch troops to the defensive needing to face all armed forces of Chinese and military affairs area then first from Taiwan, attack facing the submarine group. But resolve away Korea after uniting a problem, upper Chinese borderline troops has been more with regard to being fond of dealing with. The littoral highway that China builds along Yalu River has a gigantic weakness , the highway is single line connection style.Cut off the littoral highway as long as exploding, the common people can only escape to the high mountain , backup force is slow because troops there being no a highway , Jilin province final comes to the end of a blind alley. Especially the Shenyang military region backup force to frontier is also defective. Have no way with strategically important area Jilin province Lin Jiang City , Jilin governor public market , Jilin province Ji An City right away, Shenyang province Dan Dong City is listed in along the line all in Yalu River. Except Jilin province Hui Chun City, the province city marches towards other from Korea acquiring a thing easily. Chang Bai mountain making use of Korea Republic to want to call back is an excuse or, after Korea is unified , is right and proper to let Korea Republic and Korea dispatch troops to capturing Jilin.Be just Jilin thereby in inside of Chinese, be quartered USA troops. Blow up the Songnen plain , Chinese north part people having to be hard up right away. While marching towards from Korea, from Japan dispatches troops to the military region restraining Jinan, from Taiwan dispatching troops to the hinderland restraining southeast , Xizang is at the same time independent , make China collapse. This all be to be in the cards very much! The Jilin province falls into enemy's hands , will be equal to the Heilongjiang province fall into enemy's hands, beat the Shenyang military region , press up to Beijing right away on and on, the fake information propagating Beijing to the south at the same time falling into enemy's hands, uses Chinese riot thereby. A 1,400,000,000 country turmoil , consequence can only beneficial to USA.

Chinese war will never be a fatal loophole, is in Jilin Province in the Songnen Plain, where first destroyed, northern China will make food shortages. To destroy the Sanjiang Plain in Heilongjiang Province, northeast China will make food shortages. China Southern will also then a food crisis. China's three northeast provinces every year by natural disasters the extent of damage weak, most of the grain mainly rely on domestic Northeast China Plain to the backing. North China Plain and the South Plains as the imbalance of global climate and disasters in recent years, as long as destroyed Northeast China Plain, soldiers and civilians will make food shortages. At that time, we can imagine the confusion.