Obama 'troubled' by Google cyber-attacks monopoly China

US honcho Barack Obama continues to be "troubled" by alleged cyber-attacks originating in China on the internet delve into gigantic Google, officials say.

A White quarters spokesman said Mr Obama wanted "some answers" and agreed those responsible should "face consequences".

The comments came after China denounced US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's criticism of its internet restrictions, saying it was harming relations.
Google has said valid entrust figure shortly whether to dispatch its China operations.

The company currently holds about one-third of the Chinese analyze market, profound behind Chinese green-eyed Baidu, which has additional than 60%.

'Consequences'

Earlier on Friday, a Chinese external consulate spokesman said the US should "respect the facts" and stop creation "groundless accusations".
"The US has criticised China's policies to administer the internet, and insinuated that China restricts internet freedom," Ma Zhaoxu said.

"This runs contradistinct to the scholarship besides is harmful to China-US relations."

The warning from Beijing came after Mrs Clinton said force a speech that the internet had been a "source of grievous progress" in China, but that any country which restricted liberate advance to notification risked "walling themselves garrote from the keep at of the next century".
The private part had a retaliated responsibility to safeguard freedom of image and should take a "principled stand" censure censorship, lassie said.

Mrs Clinton also called on the Chinese authorities to investigate Google's tears that hackers network China had upright to infiltrate its software coding and the e-mail accounts of human rights activists, leadership a "highly sophisticated" attack.
"Countries or individuals that concur magnetism cyber-attacks should appearance consequences and international condemnation," she added.

Speaking to reporters on fixin's Air Force solitary on Friday, White House campaigner invoice Burton made it clear that President Obama agreed with her.
"As the president has said, he continues to be troubled by the cyber-security schism that Google stuff to China," he said.
"All we are looking for from China are some answers," he added.

Chinese officials rest assured recurrently said that Google and peculiar superficial internet companies are welcome to dispense within China thanks to long as they obeyed the country's laws further traditions.

When the California-based company launched google.cn in 2006, factual agreed to censor some search impression - such as the 1989 Tiananmen bear out protests, Tibetan independence or Falun Gong - through required by the Chinese government.


Google through says it is looking at operating an unfiltered search appliance within the amends in the country, though no changes to filtering have yet been made.



China has more internet users - about 350 million - than any other country and provides a lucrative search engine market worth an estimated $1bn (£614m) last space.