The US has called on Beijing to investigate the recent cyber attacks on Google, which have prompted the search giant to threaten to leave China. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that companies such as Google should refuse to support "politically-motivated censorship". She also said China along with Tunisia and Uzbekistan had boosted censorship.
Google says hackers tried to infiltrate its software coding and the e-mail accounts of human rights activists. The BBC's Kim Ghattas at the State Department says Mrs Clinton's remarks are bound to anger the Chinese authorities, who have sought to play down the incident. China says the row should not be linked to relations with the US. More on: BBC
