A senior Chinese official said this week that there is no cyber warfare between the United States and China as the friction has been going on for weeks over accusations that China may have initiated massive cyber attacks.

While both suffering from cyber crime Chinese and American governments in no way direct these actions, Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai told a small group of foreign reporters ahead of a meeting with U.S. officials in Hawaii this weekend.

"I want to clear something up: there are no contradictions between China and the United States" on the issue of hacking, Cui said.

"Though hackers attack the U.S. Internet and China's Internet, I believe they do not represent any country," he added.

Both countries were in fact already discussing the problem of hacking during their regular strategic consultations, Cui said.

"The international community ought to come up with some rules to prevent this misuse of advanced technology," he added.