BEIJING, June 2 (Xinhua) -- China has expressed concern about claims by Edward Snowden on looming mass surveillance in Japan, saying that it strongly opposed any kind of cyber spying, including mass data surveillance.
"There is widespread dislocation in today's cyberspace. China upholds that differences should be solved through talks, and a code of conduct accepted by all parties should be worked out," said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying at a daily press briefing Friday.
Hua made the remarks in response to reports that Snowden, a former contractor for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), recently said that Japan might be moving closer to sweeping surveillance of ordinary citizens and that the consequences could be even graver when combined with the use of a wide-reaching online data collection tool called XKEYSCORE, which was said to have been shared with Japan by the NSA.
"China highly values cyber security and is determined to protect its security interests. China will take measures to safeguard its own network and information security," Hua said.
