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China has denounced US criticism of its internet controls, saying it could damage ties among both countries.

American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Thursday for China to lift limitations on the internet.

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Mrs Clinton also urged Beijing to investigate Googles complaints that cyber assaults had originated in China.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said the US should ‘esteem the facts’ and stop making ‘unfounded accusations against China’.

In a wide-ranging speech in Washington, Mrs Clinton said the internet had been a ’source of enormous progress’ in China but that any country which restricted free approach to information risked ‘walling themselves off from the advance of the next century’.

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Google said on 12 January that hackers had tried to infiltrate its software coding and the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights works, in a ‘highly cultivated’ attack that originated from China.

Mrs Clinton called on Chinese authorities to investigate the Google grievance of cyber assaults and to make the results free.

source: bbc