In first response to Snowden, China skirts direct comment

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By Ben Blanchard and Benjamin Kang Lim BEIJING (Reuters) - China refused to be drawn on Thursday on revelations of U.S. electronic surveillance and on the American in Hong Kong who leaked the information, and a senior source said Beijing does not want to jeopardize recently improved ties with Washington. China has been on a long holiday since National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden told Britain's Guardian newspaper and the Washington Post last week of the agency's programs to monitor data at big companies such as Google Inc and Facebook Inc. ...




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