USA-CHINA/CYBER SECURITY China says up to United States to resume cyber security talks

Record ID: 151983

  • Title: USA-CHINA/CYBER SECURITY China says up to United States to resume cyber security talks
  • Date: 23rd June 2015
  • Summary: BEIJING, CHINA (JUNE 23, 2015) (REUTERS) FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN, LU KANG, WALKING IN FOR REGULAR NEWS CONFERENCE MEDIA SEATED (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN, LU KANG, SAYING: "Internet security is a problem faced by the international community, and indeed requires effective cooperation by the international community on the basis of mutual respect. Ch
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  • Location: China
  • Country: China
  • Topics: General
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  • Story Text: It is up to the United States to create the conditions to resume regular talks on cyber security, China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday (June 23), as the two countries began three days of high-level meetings in Washington.
    Cyber security has long been an irritant to bilateral ties.
    An attack on the U.S. government's Office of Personnel Management, revealed this month, compromised the data of 4 million current and former federal employees, raising U.S. suspicions that Chinese hackers were building huge databases that could be used to recruit spies.
    Last year China shut down a bilateral working group on cyber security after the United States charged five Chinese military officers with hacking American firms.
    Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said that Internet security was something that the international community needed to face together as it was a common problem.
    "Internet security is a problem faced by the international community, and indeed requires effective cooperation by the international community on the basis of mutual respect. China and the United States had previously always had a good dialogue mechanism on issues of Internet security. Because of reasons that everyone knows about, and not because of China, this dialogue has stopped. Speaking by seeking truth from the facts, resuming these talks probably needs the United States to properly handle the relevant issue to create conditions for dialogue," Lu told a daily news briefing in Beijing.
    More than 400 Chinese officials are in Washington for the annual talks under the wide-ranging Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) framework, which will involve eight U.S. cabinet secretaries.
    The meetings come at a time of waning trust and widening differences between the two countries, even though they maintain robust economic ties worth $590 billion in two-way trade last year.
    U.S. concerns have been mounting about Beijing's challenge to its dominance of global finance and about restrictions on U.S. businesses in China.
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