Q: The Treasury Board of the Canadian government released a statement saying that a highly sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored actor recently managed to hack into the computer systems at Canada's National Research Council. Canadian Foreign Minister said the Canadian government has held discussions with Chinese leaders on this. What is China's comment?
A: The Chinese government consistently opposes criminal activities of all forms aimed at sabotaging the Internet and computer networks, including cyber-hacking and has been cracking down on such activities firmly . It is irresponsible for the Canadian side to make groundless accusations against China when there is no credible evidence. We are strongly opposed to that. We urge the Canadian side to correct their mistakes, stop making baseless accusations and eliminate the negative impacts incurred by its statement.