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Snowden tells China, Hong Kong of broad hacking efforts by the US
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Jun 13, 2013
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Snowden tells China, Hong Kong of broad hacking efforts by the US
This morning, former CIA analyst Edward Snowden told China News Daily that the United States has been hacking China. Take Two talks with Marketplace’s China Correspondent Rob Schmitz.
Protesters shout slogans in support of former US spy Edward Snowden as march to the US consulate in Hong Kong on June 13, 2013. Snowden broke his silence on June 12, vowing to fight any bid to extradite him from Hong Kong and accusing Washington's cyber-troops of prying into hundreds of thousands of targets globally including many in China.
Protesters shout slogans in support of former US spy Edward Snowden as march to the US consulate in Hong Kong on June 13, 2013. Snowden broke his silence on June 12, vowing to fight any bid to extradite him from Hong Kong and accusing Washington's cyber-troops of prying into hundreds of thousands of targets globally including many in China.
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This morning, former CIA analyst Edward Snowden told China News Daily that the United States has been hacking China. Take Two talks with Marketplace’s China Correspondent Rob Schmitz.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is in Hong Kong, where he told the newspaper China Daily that the NSA has been hacking into Chinese computers since 2009. It's an interesting shift in the rhetoric, since it's the U.S. that's usually accusing China of hacking company and government networks.

Rob Schmitz, China correspondent for Marketplace, joins the show with more on how China is responding to these allegations.