Google’s Web Attack Reports ‘Defamed’ China, People’s Daily Says

Google Inc.’s reports that Chinese hackers may have organized attacks on U.S. and Asian government officials using the company’s Gmail service “defamed China,” the official People’s Daily said in an editorial.

Google was “strongly insinuating” without evidence that the Chinese government directed the alleged cyber attacks, the editorial said. The U.S. company’s accusations were “very serious” and reinforced the “western world’s negative perceptions of China,” according to the Chinese Communist Party-affiliated newspaper.