Obama, Xi agree: U.S., China won’t conduct cybertheft

“We’ll face the question of how to reduce emissions in industries and sectors not covered by emissions trading schemes”, Mr. Yang said.

Opening Xi’s state visit to Washington, Obama says nations are more successful when their companies compete on an even playing field and human rights are respected.

Western tech companies were summoned last month to learn that Chinese regulators are reviving cybersecurity banking regulations, which have been widely criticized for codifying open access to US encryption IP and for restricting essential civil society internet freedoms.

Apparently responding to United States and Silicon Valley criticism of China’s Internet censorship, Xi told chief executives including Apple’s Tim Cook and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg that countries should align Internet policy “with their national realities”.

Xi, during a morning arrival ceremony, called on the US and China to be “broadminded about differences and disagreements”. It has steadily put pressure on the Chinese government over the last several years to repudiate the use of cybertheft of trade secrets – something the US business community and administration has accused Beijing of engaging in on an industrial scale.

Then there is domestic politics. And the Chinese may already be looking to the future.

Obama administration officials say China is getting the message. Jia, by the fact that China is “still learning how to manage issues as a strong, rich superpower and it has a lot of things to learn”.

“I don’t think in this state visit you will see really attention-grabbing announcements”, said a USA official.

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Obama says he raised his “very serious concerns” about growing cyberthreats in his meeting with Xi. And the Middle Kingdom’s leaders have always been suspicious of the hawkish instincts of top Democrat Hillary Clinton, who established herself on the worldwide stage with a tongue-lashing speech in Beijing in 1995.

On the eve of Xi’s visit, USA officials revealed that two Chinese fighter jets had passed dangerously close to an American spy plane in global airspace over the Yellow Sea.

Ninety-two-year-old Henry Kissinger, the shrewd diplomat who served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, hustled through without stopping to comment, moving pretty quickly even with a cane.

“Conflict and confrontation” between the two powers “would lead to disaster for both countries and the world at large”, stressed Xi. The relationship between the United States and China is “the most consequential in the world today”, National Security Adviser Susan Rice said this week.

In recent weeks, however, United States officials have been taking a tougher line publicly against China’s alleged hacking, saying it is reaching epidemic levels. “This isn’t a zero sum game”.

“I believe that the threat of sanctions brought President Xi to the negotiating table, and President Obama must make clear to his counterparts that sanctions will be levied on rogue actors in cyberspace”.

Chinese economic problems that have infected US markets are another likely subject of discussion. And despite the complications, both sides do have a political interest in dialogue.

“I’d have them come over, all right, but I’d cancel the state dinner”, Carly Fiorina said.

That’s especially true given the leaders’ influence on issues central to Obama’s agenda, including climate change, the Iran nuclear deal and his hoped-for Pacific trade agreement.

The frequent themes in Chinese state media that cast the U.S.in a negative light, such as Washington’s moves to contain China, its intervention in other countries’ affairs and the high gun crime rate in USA cities, have been wiped away – for a week, anyway.

Indeed, not everyone is pessimistic about the summit. But Obama also referenced the tensions. This time, it’s for Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng).

But this visit does have its own challenges.

The announcement comes on the heels of the massive Office of Personnel Management hack announced in June – which officials have blamed on the Chinese. On Wednesday, it was announced that the fingerprints of 5.6 million federal workers had been stolen during the breach.

“We have agreed that neither the USA or the Chinese government will conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential business information for commercial advantage”.