The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday expressed opposition to U.S. deployment of cyber forces in its neighboring countries, in response to Washington's cyber theft targeting Japan.

According to WikiLeaks, the U.S. carried out cyber theft against 35 Japanese targets, including some members of the Japanese cabinet.

The spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the U.S. government has not only carried out large-scale, systematic and indiscriminate cyber theft against other countries in the world, but also attempted recently to deploy cyber forces to relevant countries in the name of capacity-building cooperation to infiltrate these countries' cyber system.

The U.S. has even resorted to media and other forms of disinformation of so-called "Chinese hackers" in order to induce or coerce relevant countries, particularly those around China, to receive U.S. cyber force deployment, which is akin to inviting a wolf into their house, given the fact that the U.S. leads the world in hacking technology, said the spokesperson.

This not only endangers the relevant countries' cyber security, but also turns themselves into a bridgehead or springboard for U.S. government's cyber attacks against China, without their knowledge, said the spokesperson.

Given the strategic importance of cyber military forces, the nature of U.S. deployment of such forces is no different from deploying intermediate-range missiles and anti-missile systems next to China, noted the spokesperson.

"The move is essentially tying China's neighbors to the chariot of the U.S. It gravely harms China's strategic security interest and can easily cause major risks of miscalculation."

The spokesperson said, China opposes the U.S. deployment of cyber forces in China's neighboring countries and condemns the U.S. disinformation campaign.

"We hope the international community, in particular China's neighbors, will judge for themselves what the U.S.' true intentions are."

(Cover: China's Foreign Ministry. /CFP)