Obama warns Xi that continued cybertheft would damage relations, U.S. officials said
By Philip Rucker, WashPost, Published: June 8
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — President Obama confronted Chinese President Xi Jinping here Saturday with specific evidence of China’s widespread theft of intellectual property from U.S. companies and warned the newly minted Chinese leader that continued cybertheft would undermine economic ties between the rival nations, U.S. officials said.
The discussion came near the end of a high-stakes and unusual summit, where Obama and Xi reached breakthroughs on other critical issues, including an agreement to work together to denuclearize North Korea and to confront global climate change.
Yet in eight hours of private talks during two days at an expansive desert estate here, the most tension between Obama and Xi seemed to surround the contentious issue of cybersecurity.
“It is now at the center of the relationship; it is not an adjunct issue,” Thomas E. Donilon, Obama’s national security adviser and a participant in the discussions, told reporters.
Obama, presenting detailed examples of cybertheft, told the Chinese delegation that the United States has no doubt that the intrusions are coming from within China, according to Donilon.
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — President Obama confronted Chinese President Xi Jinping here Saturday with specific evidence of China’s widespread theft of intellectual property from U.S. companies and warned the newly minted Chinese leader that continued cybertheft would undermine economic ties between the rival nations, U.S. officials said.
The discussion came near the end of a high-stakes and unusual summit, where Obama and Xi reached breakthroughs on other critical issues, including an agreement to work together to denuclearize North Korea and to confront global climate change.
Yet in eight hours of private talks during two days at an expansive desert estate here, the most tension between Obama and Xi seemed to surround the contentious issue of cybersecurity.
“It is now at the center of the relationship; it is not an adjunct issue,” Thomas E. Donilon, Obama’s national security adviser and a participant in the discussions, told reporters.
Obama, presenting detailed examples of cybertheft, told the Chinese delegation that the United States has no doubt that the intrusions are coming from within China, according to Donilon.
(More here.)
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