China's Foreign Ministry today said it could not accept accusations from Google the Chinese Government was making it difficult for Gmail users to access the service in the country.
Yesterday, Google released a statement saying disruptions to the online email service not been a technical issue but a "Government blockage carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail."
However, the Chinese Government has fought back with a statement this morning.
"This is an unacceptable accusation," ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular news conference.
The relationship between the super-power state and Silicon Valley giant has been well documented over the past year.
In March 2010, Google threatened to pull its operations out of China after it accused the country of massive hack attacks to become known as Aurora on Gmail accounts of human rights activists.
This was added to in November of last year when a Wikileaks cable showed communications between a Chinese contact and the American Embassy in Beijing admitting the hack was down to the Politburo.
