China claim Google case not linked to U.S. ties, as Hillary Clinton readies Internet sovereignty speech

BEIJING - China's argument with Internet giant Google, which is aggressive to out of the country over anxiety about censorship and security, should not be linked to two-sided ties with the United States, a top Chinese official said Thursday.

The statements from Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei come hours before U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to gives speech in Washington on the Obama administration's policy for defending freedom on the Internet.

Google said on Jan. 12 that it will stay in China only if the government concedes on rules need the censorship of content the ruling communist party considers dissident. The ultimatum came once Google said it uncovered a computer attack that tried to raid its software coding and the e-mail accounts of human rights activists’ objection Chinese policies.

The US has said it will small house an official complaint to Beijing on the suspected hacking attacks.

"The Google case should not be linked with relations between the two governments and countries; if not, it's an over-interpretation," China's He told a news talks, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
The Xinhua report did not mention censorship, in its place referring to Google's "disagreements with government policies."

The Foreign Ministry said that the Google must follow China's laws and a tradition, suggesting it was giving no opinion in talks with the company.