Can US become world leader by hacking?

Cyber theft of trade secrets by China is a threat to U.S. national security, U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus said on Wednesday in the first major public address of his tenure, warning that Washington would continue to apply pressure to Beijing.

"We wouldn't sit idly by while a crime was being committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?" he said. "We will continue to use diplomatic and legal means to make it clear that this type of behavior must stop."

Baucus's remarks were nothing new; he was simply repeating the U.S. government's groundless accusations against China from last month.

Although China has sternly refuted the U.S. accusations on Baucus' charges of cyber theft, China has to affirm its position again: China is a staunch defender of network security. China has never engaged in cyber theft of trade secrets. Accusations made by the U.S. against China are fabricated, with ulterior motives.

The United States has repeatedly criticized other countries while portraying itself as a victim, which forces people to think of the Daily Telegraph's comments: With the public now aware of the creation of a massive, secret U.S.-backed Internet surveillance program revealed by Edward Joseph Snowden, the U.S. has ceded the moral high ground on the issue.

That the United States is "the king of hackers", has been acknowledged for some time. The more the U.S.A. tries to gloss over the fact, the more its moral shortcomings are exposed. "Prism" showed the ugly side of the USA to the world.

· The NSA keeps track of most of the world's cell phones, collecting nearly five billion records every day - Washington Post, December 5, 2013

· It may have been monitoring the cell phone conversations of Chancellor Angela Merkel for as much as 10 years - Reuters, October 23, 2013