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White House Voices Concerns About China Cyber Law (reuters.com) 48

The White House said on Thursday that it raised concerns about China's new cyber security law during a meeting with a Chinese official after the latest round of talks between the two countries on cyber crime. From a report on Reuters: U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice met with Chinese State Councilor Guo Shengkun to discuss the importance "of fully adhering" to an anti-hacking accord signed last year between the China and the United States, National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said. The deal, brokered during Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington in 2015, included a pledge that neither country would knowingly carry out hacking for commercial advantages. Rice told Guo that the United States was concerned "about the potential impacts" of a law that China adopted in November aimed at combating hacking and terrorism.
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White House Voices Concerns About China Cyber Law

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  • by Errol backfiring ( 1280012 ) on Friday December 09, 2016 @09:46AM (#53452113) Journal

    ... that neither country would knowingly carry out hacking for commercial advantages.

    So doing it for political or military advantages is fine?

    • Keyword (Score:4, Insightful)

      by DrYak ( 748999 ) on Friday December 09, 2016 @10:20AM (#53452283) Homepage

      ... that neither country would knowingly carry out hacking for commercial advantages.

      So doing it for political or military advantages is fine?

      No, the keyword here was knowingly,
      but you probably didn't manage to catch it over the noise of NSA and MSS both laughing their asses out together.

    • by Mashiki ( 184564 )

      So doing it for political or military advantages is fine?

      Sure. Long as it's disavowed and neither side gets caught, and with luck no gigantic wars are started. Been like that for hundreds of years. It was the standard MO of the USSR, US, UK, Canada, etc. The only difference between "hacking" a target and requiring a warm body to do the stealing is the era it's happening in.

  • Is somebody worried that the US, a country that is in hardly any position to complain about restrictions and censorship, might have to hold up its end of the deal?

  • by sinij ( 911942 ) on Friday December 09, 2016 @10:12AM (#53452249)
    I think this administration is too much about speaking softly and not enough about carrying a big stick. China won't stop government-sponsored cyber espionage just because we ask them nicely.
    • What're you going to do? Bomb them?
      • by sinij ( 911942 )
        So there absolutely no intermediate steps possible between "politely ask" and "nuclear strikes"?

        Fortunately, politics are not that binary.
  • by Anonymous Coward

    We just can't get enough fake news from the New York Times and the Washington Post as they cast about looking for why Trump won.

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  • I am all for Trump's get tough on China stance but 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union we should be applying the same model, rather than exporting our wealth to them via a trade deficit.

    The Chinese economy is radically unbalanced right now much more so than our own in fact. If we suddenly deprived them of the sink for all the consumer goods the produces we could probably turn the PRC into failed state! What we ought to do is trigger that and simultaneously lay the ground work for installing a frie

  • 'It's totally worked for us' - UN

    • Don't you mean get some papers to write an article which heavily implies they broke some agreement?

      China is requiring data for Chinese citizens to be stored in China and they wrote up some laws governing search and seizure which are nothing the US can't do with a national security letter, woopdefuckingdoo.

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