Chinese officials shocked their American counterparts a secret meeting in which they allegedly revealed that Beijing was behind a series of cyber attacks against the United States due to Washington’s support to Taiwan, according to a new report.
Chinese officials and the former Biden administration met in secret last December in Geneva, Switzerland in the middle of the growing tensions about Taiwan’s sovereignty threats, with Beijing abandoning all the claims and revealing that they played a role in piracy attacks in the US ports Street.
The scope of Beijing’s role was left ambiguous, but US officials interpreted him as a clear threat to the United States’s support for Taiwan as an independent nation, they said officials familiar with the meeting.
The secret meeting was a hero with the senior officials of the Nations and led by Nate Fick, the then ambassador of the United States in general for cyberspace and digital policy, together with Wang Lei, a senior cyber official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, officials said.
While China had previously blamed all statements of cyber attacks and espionage to dishonest computer pirates, such as the Volt Typhoon Group, Wang made it clear that the hacks were a direct result of the oppering in Taiwan, which Beijing insists that it is attached in the coming years.
Wang’s comments occurred after the United States warned China that attacks against critical civil infrastructure could be seen as an act of war, a former American official said.
Beijing’s comment was especially shocking since the American team wanted to give China the opportunity to dissipate doubts that it was involved with piracy attacks, the official added.
Both Biden’s White House and President Trump’s transition team were informed about the secret meeting and the details discussed, WSJ reported.
Neinder the State Department or the National Security Council offered comments on the meeting.
The State Department emphasized that “it will take measures in response to the Malicious Chinese cyber activity,” criticizing attacks such as “some of the most serious and persistent threats for the national security of the United States.”
Beijing has not yet commented on the reports of the meeting, but its officials have previously accused the United States of “using cyber security to stain and slander China.”
The secret meeting of Geneva took place after the revelations that the computer pirates who work with the Ministry of Security of the State of China spied to calls and messages of messages of the senior government officials, including those of the campaigns of Trump and Kamala Harris.
Piracy revelations come not only when Beijing increases the military exercises that surround Taiwan, but also as Chinese-American relations reach a historical minimum about Trump’s commercial war.
