China says it has ‘irrefutable evidence’ the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) has accessed stolen credentials and used these to breach network systems at the center as far back as 2022. China warns these serious incidents may have disrupted financial systems, power supplies, communications networks, and the international standard time.

China has reported that its economy expanded at the slowest annual pace in a year in July-September, growing 4.8%, weighed down by trade tensions with the United States and slack domestic demand