Big Brother USA's spy charges are absurd

As the most notorious surveillance country, the US indictment of Chinese military officers seems almost insolent in a world still reeling at the scope of the US spy network.

The Chinese military has never engaged in cyber theft of trade secrets, nonetheless, Washington has charged five members of the People's Liberation Army with hacking US companies.

Everyone knows that the US itself is the biggest cyber bully, conducting sweeping surveillance around the world. Documents leaked by former Central Intelligence Agency contractor Edward Snowden detailed the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance activities around the globe, from foreign leaders to ordinary citizens.

Intelligence from Snowden showed that about 70 million French phone calls were collected by the NSA from December 2012 to January 2013. More than 120 world leaders have been under US surveillance since 2009.

China is one of Big Brother's victims. The US routinely attacks, infiltrates and taps Chinese networks belonging to governments, institutions, enterprises, universities and major telecom backbone networks.

Latest data from the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team Coordination Center of China showed that 135 host computers in the US carried 563 phishing pages targeting Chinese websites that led to 14,000 phishing operations from March 19 to May 18.

The center found 2,016 IP addresses in the US had implanted backdoors in 1,754 Chinese websites, involving 57,000 backdoor attacks in the same period.

The indictment is based on fabricated facts, grossly violates the basic norms governing international relations and has harmed China-US ties.

In 2013 China sought talks with the US on policing cyber space through a bilateral working group, despite the shadow cast over relations by Snowden's disclosures of US electronic surveillance in China.

The US intentionally jeopardized the trust between the world's two biggest economies and China on Monday announced the suspension of the China-US Cyber Working Group which was scheduled to met in July in Beijing.

The US should clean its own house before pointing fingers at others.