The Bloomberg story contains a response from a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington that says the commission has "been collecting unproven stories to serve its purpose of vilifying China's international image over the years."

But in his own declarations about China today, Richard Clarke, former White House cybersecurity adviser and now CEO and security consultant for Good Harbor Consulting, speaks his own mind about China and hacking in a .

In the video, Clarke, while describing various kinds of cyberattacks, says, "Frankly, the government of China is involved in hacking into American companies and taking that information and giving it to Chinese companies. It means our intellectual property is going out the door in petabytes and terabytes."

In addition, a , entitled "Chinese tech giant aids Iran," details how Huawei Technologies is collaborating with the Iranian government on building a modern surveillance system at Iran's largest mobile-phone operator "that allows police to track people based on their locations of their cellphones."

The article notes that cellphone-based tracking is done in Western nations by law enforcement as well, a point made by William Plummer, Huawei's vice president of external affairs in Washington.