Wall Street Journal 2/4/13
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323701904578275920521747756.html#mod=Opinion_3
“The Journal's evidence is that the cyber-espionage goes well beyond specific stories to a general interest in sources and coverage. As companies from Google GOOG -2.18%to Nortel to BAE Systems have discovered, hacking—both for purposes of monitoring and to steal commercial intellectual property or government secrets—has become the Chinese way.
That was also the conclusion of a bipartisan report last fall from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The committee, led by Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Dutch Ruppersberger, investigated claims by Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE that they were clean companies whose expansion efforts in the U.S. would pose no risk of cyber-espionage or other threats to critical infrastructure.
What it found instead, particularly in Huawei, was a company that was founded by a former director of the Chinese Army's Information Engineering Academy, had close links to the Communist Party, and had made deceptive claims about its ownership. "Companies around the United States have experienced odd or alerting incidents using Huawei or ZTE equipment," the report noted, though it left the specifics of those incidents to a classified annex. The companies deny any wrongdoing.”
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