The US Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, US. File photo. [Photo/Agencies] 

Recently, some US intelligence agencies and media outlets have once again hyped up the false narrative of a so-called Chinese spy threat, claiming that Chinese hackers are invading US telecommunications networks.

These US media play a bad role in poisoning the atmosphere of the country's public opinion on China. Although these US media organizations claim that their reports are objective, they do not provide any reliable evidence for their allegations. They have become a tool for Washington to implement its China-containment strategy.

The US Department of Justice launched a "China action plan" in 2018, subsequently a number of innocent Chinese experts and scholars were arrested to fabricate a number of "Chinese spy" cases. Yet due to the lack of evidence and strong opposition from the US academic community, the Department of Justice had to announce the termination of this plan in 2022.

However, in September this year, the US House of Representatives passed a bill to curb "espionage activities" against US intellectual property and academic institutions, trying to revive the "China action plan".

People have long known which country is the real "hacker empire" and which country has never stopped its espionage activities around the world these years.

For a long time, it has been an open secret that US intelligence agencies have set up intelligence networks around the world, instigated other countries' personnel, stolen other countries' trade secrets, interfered in other countries' internal affairs, and subverted other countries' regimes.

The United States firmly controls the global "key nodes" such as the Atlantic and Pacific submarine optical cables, and has also established at least seven full-flow monitoring stations, colluding with other countries to analyze and steal data from the optical cables.

China is the main target and victim of the US' espionage. In recent years, many Chinese institutions such as Northwestern Polytechnical University of China and Wuhan Earthquake Monitoring Center in Hubei province have been attacked by foreign hacker organizations many times. The Chinese investigation found that the initiators were all related to the US security departments.

In order to conduct espionage infiltration, the CIA established a so-called China mission center in 2021, publicly claiming to strengthen espionage activities against China. It has recently posted online instructions in Korean, Mandarin and Persian detailing steps that potential informants can take to contact US intelligence officials without putting themselves in danger, which seriously infringes on China's national interests.

A report of the National Computer Virus Emergency Response shows that the Five Eyes intelligence alliance led by the US has long been conducting indiscriminate wiretapping and stealing secrets from global telecommunications and internet users. The US has also implemented the Volt Typhoon false information operation, conspiring to defraud US congressmen and taxpayers in order to obtain relevant legal protection and financial support.

In addition, the US has developed a stealth "toolkit" to insert Chinese language and other strings into the code of cyber weapons in an attempt to mislead investigators splashing dirty water on China.

China will resolutely crack down on the theft of secrets by foreign forces and effectively safeguard its national sovereignty, security and interests.