Earlier this year the massive breach of the US government’s Office of Personnel Management saw the loss of private information on 21.5 million government employees and their friends and families.
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Chinese officials and business tycoons know Washington state well. The aim of the American negotiators is to convince Chinese leaders in embracing the principles of the United Nations code of conduct in a bilateral agreement with Washington.
“If two big countries like ours do not cooperate with each other, just imagine what will happen to the world”.
Xi will spend his first day in the U.S.in a Seattle hotel, where talks between five USA governors and six of their Chinese counterparts will take place over issues that include improving energy efficiency in buildings, modernizing electrical grids and commercializing renewable energy. Washington state and Seattle are at the forefront of such cooperation.
It’s not clear when, where or exactly how, but Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit is expected to tie up Puget Sound traffic this week. The facade also has a permanent 75-foot-high rendering of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that enshrines the right of free speech. So would pushing China to provide more protection for intellectual property.
U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice warned China on Monday that Beijing-sponsored cyber espionage is a major stumbling block to U.S.-China relations, saying that such spying must stop.
In other words, if USA technology businesses wanted to stay in China, they would need to hand the heart of their products to the Chinese regime, and grant Chinese authorities ongoing access to their systems.
China’s surprise yuan devaluation last month and a plunge in its stock markets since June have fuelled fears of more shocks to the economy, although Premier Li Keqiang has brushed off concerns it was facing a hard landing.
Mr Xi’s four-day state visit kicks off today in Seattle, where he will meet American executives.
The Chinese government has been denying all involvement in the issue and has said that it wants to work with the United States to rid the global economy from the menace of cyber hacking. “If China takes more islands (and maritime territory) what will you do?” Ms. Rice says China and the United States are, in her words, “equally united in demanding the complete and verifiable de-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula”. “Our capacity to manage our differences is greater than that”, she stressed.
To China, such language means US recognition of China’s primacy in east Asia, its approach to human rights and one-party rule in China, Pei said.
China’s increasing restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly – including visa restrictions on American journalists – “hollow-out China’s potential”, Rice said.
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“The summit will probably end up with some useful conflict avoidance or reassurance agreements, but no fundamental progress on the core problems on the security side”, said Michael Green, a former National Security Council official now at the Center for Strategic and global Studies.
