US seeks resumption of cyber talks with China WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States next month will urge China to resume discussions on cybersecurity that were suspended abruptly after the U.S. charged five Chinese military officers with hacking into U.S. companies to steal trade secrets, a U.S. official said Thursday. Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel told The Associated Press the U.S. would push for a resumption of the cyber working group when Cabinet-level officials of both sides meet at the annual U.S.-China Security and Economic Dialogue in Beijing in the second week of July. After the indictments against the five officers were unsealed in May, Beijing pulled the plug on the group. It had been set up a year ago in what Washington viewed at the time as a diplomatic coup after President Barack Obama and China’s President Xi Jinping held a summit in California, aiming to set relations between the two global powers on a positive track. Those ties have come under growing strain, also because of China’s assertive actions in the disputed South and East China seas. Russel, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, reiterated those concerns Thursday, saying the U.S. views it as essential that China show greater restraint and use diplomacy to [...] geogianews/us-seeks-resumption-of-cyber-talks-with-china/
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:02:33 +0000
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