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Susan Rice with Fan Changlong at
the Chinese Ministry of National Defense in Beijing on August 28 during a visit
aimed at resolving tensions over cyber attacks. Talks between US and China
officials have continued in Washington. Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AFP/Getty
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Four days of talks
wrap up to help prepare for president Xi Jinping’s visit later this month
including a ‘frank and open exchange’ about thorny cyber issues
Senior US and Chinese
officials have met to discuss cybersecurity and other issues ahead of Chinese
president Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington later this month.
Cybersecurity is a
thorny topic between the two powers and China has long been blamed for cyber
attacks on US commercial interests and sensitive government personnel records.
The discussions
included a “frank and open exchange about cyber issues” between the president’s
national security adviser, Susan Rice, and Meng Jianzhu, a senior Communist
party secretary for political and legal affairs, the White House said.
Meng also met with
the FBI director, James Comey, and the homeland security secretary, Jeh
Johnson, who convened a meeting between the Chinese delegation and representatives
from the FBI, the intelligence community and the state, treasury and justice
departments.
Following a spate of
hacks on US companies and government agencies that have been blamed on China,
administration officials have pointedly let it be known that Chinese firms and
individuals could face sanctions.
The move appears to
be triggered in particular by a recent breach of US federal government
personnel files that left millions of officials exposed – including some at the
highest levels.
Obama will offer Xi a
full state welcome at the White House during his 24-25 September visit.
Word of the four days
of meetings that wrapped up on Saturday comes after The US president, Barack
Obama, warned that cyber attacks from China were “not acceptable”.
“There comes a point
at which we consider this a core national security threat and will treat it as
such,” Obama said on Friday.
[theguardian.com]
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