Cyber thief yells 'Stop thief!' while stealing all it can

Editor's note: Some in the United States take great pains to fabricate "crimes" against China, and a new crime has been cooked up recently, that China is "hacking US computers to steal business secrets". Zhong Sheng, a columnist for People's Daily, comments:

The US has long been engaged in large-scale and organized cyber espionage and surveillance activities against foreign governments, enterprises and individuals.

No country in the world can match the US in cyber spying. According to information disclosed by Edward Snowden, a former US intelligence employee, the notorious "Prism" program operated by the US government monitors people's emails and social media communications without authorization, and even the leaders of some countries and international organizations have long been under covert monitoring by the US intelligence agencies. WikiLeaks released nearly 9,000 classified documents in 2017, showing the CIA had secretly infiltrated mobile phones, computers, smart TVs and other smart devices with its powerful hacking capabilities. Western media reports point out that "the US monitors 90 percent of global communications".