Snowden’s asset: NSA hacking exposer knows secrets China wants - RT

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http://rt.com/news/snowden-china-extradition-secrets-689/

Edward Snowden could become a valuable asset for China’s cyber security experts if he is persuaded to share the knowledge of American surveillance programs. He has already given information of alleged NSA attacks on Chinese computer networks.

The former NSA contractor is now under criminal investigation in the US over the leak to the press of details of the top-secret collection of phone and web data by the American government. He is currently in Hong Kong, a Chinese territory with a large degree of autonomy, where he claimed that the US government is engaged in massive hacking attacks on Chinese computers, some of which are key part of the country’s infrastructure.

While official Beijing has so far refrained from being dragged into the scandal, voices are rising in China calling on rejecting such a request. Popular Communist Party-backed newspaper Global Times argued that the whistleblower would be of more use to China if milked for more American secrets in a Friday Op-Ed.

“The US is accumulating all the advanced powers of the Internet to forge a state-level ‘fist’ in order to launch cyber attacks on other countries. The unparalleled power of this ‘fist’ is beyond our imagination, which should be an alarm bell for us to catch up with the development of the internet,” the newspaper argued. “Our focus should be fixed on grasping the core technology of the internet industry in the future.



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1. It's possible that China will make a move on Snowden before

the upcoming summit in Washington.

Test of U.S.-China Summit to Come in Four Weeks

High-level talks between the U.S. and China in four weeks will be the first real test of the mutual understanding and personal chemistry both sides claimed to have forged during an unusually informal summit.

Chinese and U.S. officials hailed the summit that concluded Saturday on the Sunnylands estate in Rancho Mirage, Calif., as a historic moment that would help to avert future conflict, saying the two leaders found common ground on issues including North Korea and climate change, and they pledged to talk about their differences more often, including during a similarly informal summit in China at an unspecified date.

But while suggesting progress had been made, neither side gave details of any new ground broken on the most contentious issues in the relationship—Chinese cyberespionage, North Korea’s nuclear program and China’s maritime disputes in Asia. The summit included eight hours of talks, a private dinner, and a 50-minute walk by the two leaders, with only their translators, through the estate.

Chinese experts and state media on Sunday portrayed the meeting, the first with Mr. Obama since Mr. Xi became president in March, as a victory for the Chinese leader’s signature foreign-policy initiative: a proposal to form a “new type of great power relationship” with the U.S. as a way to avoid conflict between a rising power and an established one.

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2. Here is the Official Line of the Chinese Communist Party, they want top secret info

While official Beijing has so far refrained from being dragged into the scandal, voices are rising in China calling on rejecting such a request. Popular Communist Party-backed newspaper Global Times argued that the whistleblower would be of more use to China if milked for more American secrets in a Friday Op-Ed.

“The US is accumulating all the advanced powers of the Internet to forge a state-level ‘fist’ in order to launch cyber attacks on other countries. The unparalleled power of this ‘fist’ is beyond our imagination, which should be an alarm bell for us to catch up with the development of the internet,” the newspaper argued. “Our focus should be fixed on grasping the core technology of the internet industry in the future.