Global Times: The China Cybersecurity Industry Alliance released today a report entitled Mobile Cyberattacks Conducted by U.S. Intelligence Agencies, revealing how the U.S. carried out cyberattacks and espionage activities on global mobile smart terminals, supply chain and operators. What is China’s comment?

Guo Jiakun: We noted the report. According to this report, the U.S. government has taken advantage of its monopoly in telecommunication technology and in the upstream of the industrial and supply chains, and carried out large-scale and long-term malicious cyber activities targeting mobile phones and even the entire mobile industry ecosystem globally. Such activities have been pervasive.

Let me point out that according to the report, the U.S. is the major country that carries out cyberattacks through the supply chain and mobile operators. Over the years, the U.S. has blamed others on the security of the supply chain, applied double standards, and tried every means to peddle the so-called security issues in 5G supply chain. At the same time, however, it has pre-positioned backdoors in telecommunication equipment and products worldwide to support its cyberattacks with the help of major U.S. Internet companies or suppliers . We believe this report will help the world have a better understanding of what the U.S. has done in this field.

We express grave concern over the malicious cyber activities by the U.S. as revealed by the report. We urge the U.S. to stop such activities at once, in particular the malicious cyber activities carried out through the global supply chain. The U.S. should give an explanation to the world in a responsible attitude.