China sought to possess tension with the United States over online censorship and hacking, claiming Google's quarrel with Beijing should not be over- construed bilateral relations with the U. S., and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei said Thursday.

Comments by Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei seemed to represent an effort to downplay disputes and prevent further straining ties with Washington. Relations are already hampered by quarrels over trade, Taiwan and human rights.

In last week's statement, Google's chief legal counsel cited a planned hacking operation resulting from China targeted Google and at least 20 other companies.

Google revealed it planned to talk and discuss with the Chinese government about the track on which it should continue to stick and operate in China after it stops filtering results on the Chinese site, Google. cn.

However, Jack Ma, the outspoken chief executive of the country's largest e-commerce firm, Alibaba, ”This week Google was looking for "excuses" by blaming China”.

Microsoft Corp claimed that it would extend its efforts to fix the old version of its Internet Explorer browser that allowed attacks on the Google network in China, posing the vulnerability related to recent attacks against Google.