Washington: US Diplomatic dispatches that were made public earlier this week blamed top officials in the Chinese Governmentt for hacking Google.
"A well-placed contact claims that the Chinese government coordinated the recent intrusions of Google systems," a cable dated earlier this year said.
Cables suggest that a top Chinese Communist Party official became hostile to Google after he searched his own name and found articles criticising him.
That single act prompted a politically inspired assault on Google, forced Google to withdraw from its 400 million user strong Chinese market in January this year.
Cables also revealed that Beijing recruited a network of hackers to access secret US government and military information. China, however, has rubbished the accusations, calling them 'absurd'
Google in January charged that it and at least 20 other companies were victims of a highly sophisticated cyber attack in mid December 2009 that originated from China, apparently to gain access to email accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
In March, Google began redirecting queries from Google.cn to Google.com.hk, allowing uncensored Chinese search results. But it ended the automatic redirect to the Hong Kong site in June to avoid having its license suspended by China.
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