(25 Jan 10 - RV) China widened its attack today against U.S. criticisms of Internet
censorship.
The world's biggest search engine provider, Google threatened
to shut down its Chinese site after a severe hacking attack from within China on the
private accounts of Chinese pro democracy activists.
Observers say the
dispute could narrow room for Beijing and Washington to focus on other disputes such
as trade, currency, U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan and human rights.
Editor
of AsiaNews agency, PIME missionary Fr Bernardo Cervellera says however that the question
of Internet freedom is directly connected to the issue of human rights: