What to Expect from the US-China Cyber Deal?
with
Jason Healey
Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative,
Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security Atlantic Council
James Mulvenon
Deputy Director of Advanced Analysis
DGI’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis
Adam Segal
Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program
Council on Foreign Relations
On Tuesday, October 6, 2015, a conference call was held with members and press regarding the recent cyber deal between the United States and China, and its implications. The two countries agreed not to conduct cyber-enabled economic espionage, and while many China experts and cybersecurity professionals have raised concerns about the limitations of the agreement and the credibility of China’s commitment to it – the country has repeatedly denied any engagement in commercial cyber theft despite mounting evidence suggesting otherwise – the agreement nevertheless marks the first time the United States and China have publicly agreed on the impermissibility of economic espionage.
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