Obama talks tough on China cyber sanctions before visit

Tensions over cyber security will take center stage during a trip by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington next week, Xi’s first state visit to the United States.

Yuan Peng, vice-president of the China Institute of Contemporary global Relations, said the two countries should exercise control over problematic issues that can not be resolved quickly.

That will mean a hard balancing act for Obama.

“We have been quite clear that the United States does not engage in the kind of cyber activity that yields a significant financial benefit for American companies, and that’s precisely the kind of behavior and activity that we’ve raised concerns about with regard to China”, said Earnest. Liu Jianchao, formerly a Foreign Affairs Ministry official, was transferred to the Bureau of Corruption Prevention to head the hunt as the agency’s deputy chief – a highly unusual move, Communist Party sources say. “And the jury is still out”. Calls for a harder line have echoed from Congress to Republicans campaigning for the 2016 presidential election.

It highlights the level of mistrust between the world’s two super powers, made worse by the White House’s eagerness to broadcast Obama’s change of residence.

“I do think this is a critical moment for China to articulate its case to the world about being an economy that will grow, and grow stably, in the 21 century because there are real anxieties about that question”, she said.

The United States’ engagement with China over 40 yeas ago was based on the common threat the two sides were facing – the Soviet Union, and at that time China was weak, Wang noted.

“Common interests outweigh the differences between China and the United States”, Xi said.

Xi said the slowdown of China’s economic growth is the result of the country’s development pattern transformation and economic restructuring.

Xi will be in Seattle from September 22 to 24.

The sanctions Washington was weighing would not goal suspected hackers of presidency knowledge however relatively overseas residents and companies believed answerable for cyber assaults on business enterprises.

“We are preparing a number of measures that will indicate to the Chinese that this is not just a matter of us being mildly upset”, he said during a speech to the Business Roundtable in Washington.

The Wall Street Journal and other branches of News Corp. will fully cover the USA visit, Murdoch said. “It’s a crucial time for Chinese leaders to express that clearly”. Facebook and Google, to name a few, are already blocked within China’s digital borders, and this latest development could pit those companies’ desires to remain independent against the pursuit of profit.