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08.28.15How My Presidency Would Deal With China
Wall Street Journal
Approaching Beijing on the basis of strength and example, not weakness and appeasement.
Conversation
08.18.15
How Should the U.S. Conduct the Xi Jinping State Visit?
As tensions increase between China and the United States over the value of the yuan, human rights violations, alleged cyber attacks, and disputed maritime territories, among other issues, how should the Obama administration conduct the upcoming...
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08.10.15China Read Emails of Top U.S. Officials
NBC News
First codenamed "Dancing Panda" by U.S. officials was detected in April 2010, according to a top secret NSA briefing from 2014.
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07.02.15China National Security Law Won’t Apply to Hong Kong
South China Morning Post
Hong Kong has a provision on national security law-Article 23, stating that it can enact laws to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, or subversion.
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07.02.15Jitters in Tech World Over New Chinese Security Law
New York Times
New language in the rules calls for a “national security review” of the technology industry — including network and other products and services — and foreign investment.
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06.22.15China Voice: Cooperation Prevails Over Confrontation in China-U.S. Ties
Xinhua
The dialogues will help pave the way for President Xi Jinping's state visit to the U.S. in September.
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06.20.15Hunt for Deep Panda Intensifies in Trenches of U.S.-China Cyberwar
Reuters
Deep Panda is one of several hacking groups that cybersecurity companies accuse of hacking U.S. networks.
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06.20.15Attack Gave Chinese Hackers Privileged Access to U.S. Systems
New York Times
Chinese intruders' attack gave them “administrator privileges” into Office of Personnel Management computer networks.
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06.12.15Chinese Hackers Circumvent Popular Web Privacy Tools
New York Times
The attackers compromised websites frequented by Chinese journalists as well as China’s Muslim Uighur ethnic minority.
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06.08.15Obama Vows to Boost U.S. Cyber Defenses Amid Signs of China Hacking
Reuters
U.S. officials said the probe into a massive breach of federal government networks has yielded growing signs of a direct Chinese role.
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06.05.15China in Focus as Cyber Attack Hits Millions of U.S. Federal Workers
Reuters
Hacks possibly compromised the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees.
Viewpoint
04.22.15
Will China’s New Anti-Terrorism Law Mean the End of Privacy?
A newly drafted Chinese anti-terrorism law, if enacted in its current form, will empower Beijing to expand its already nearly unchecked policing of the Internet to reach web traffic and other online data flows emanating from both domestic and...
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04.20.15Snowden Revelations Just Gave China More Ammunition Against US Hacking
Reuters
China concerned about New Zealand and U.S. intelligence plan to hack Chinese government buildings in Auckland.
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04.19.15IBM Venture With China Stirs Concerns
New York Times
IBM is running into Obama pressure to persuade Beijing to drop new measures that require American companies to hand over technology in exchange for market access.
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04.15.15China’s Biggest Chip Maker’s Possible Tie-Up With H-P Values Unit at Up to $5 Billion
Wall Street Journal
Tsinghua Unigroup in talks to buy a controlling stake in Hewlett-Packard unit H3C Technologies.
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04.15.15Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on China and Russia?
Atlantic
It's unclear how she would manage two of America's most important and complex relationships.
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04.13.15China Accused Of Decade Of Cyber Attacks On Governments And Corporates In Asia
TechCrunch
“There’s no smoking gun...,but all signs point to China” Bryce Boland told TechCrunch.
Conversation
04.01.15
New Chinese Cyberattacks: What’s to Be Done?
Starting last week, hackers foiled a handful of software providers that promote freedom of information by helping web surfers in China reach the open Internet. The attacks that drastically slowed the anti-censorship services of San Francisco-based...
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04.01.15Obama Expands Options for Retaliating Against Foreign Hackers - NYTimes.com
New York Times
Obama used existing authority to impose economic sanctions on North Korea, but the new order will expand his options.
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03.31.15Chinese Authorities Compromise Millions in Cyberattacks
Great Firewall of China
Hijacking the computers of millions of innocent Internet users around the world shows China's disregard for Internet governance norms.
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03.30.15China Appears to Attack GitHub by Diverting Web Traffic
New York Times
In recent attacks on sites that try to help Internet users in China circumvent censorship, the Great Firewall appears to have been used as a weapon.
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03.30.15Q. and A.: Adam Fisk on Evading Internet Censorship in China
New York Times
GreatFire.org’s “mirrored” websites and the Internet bandwidth-sharing service Lantern have allowed users to access the open Internet.
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03.23.15IBM to Share Technology with China in Strategy Shift: CEO
Reuters
IBM must help China build its IT industry rather than viewing the country solely as a sales destination or manufacturing base.
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03.19.15China (Finally) Admits to Hacking
Diplomat
An updated military document for the first time admits that the Chinese government sponsors offensive cyber units.
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03.19.15China’s Biggest Anti-Censorship Service is Under Attack
Variety
GreatFire.org has been under an unprecedented denial-of-service attack, receiving more than 2 billion requests per hour.
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03.04.15China Says Tech Firms Have Nothing to Fear From Anti-terror Law
Reuters
Obama this week said China would have to change the draft law if it were "to do business with the United States".
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02.27.15In China, Suspicions Cloud Trade Dispute Involving Tech Companies
New York Times
Top Internet regulator has warned foreign companies to behave if they want to stay in China’s $450 billion technology market.
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02.26.15China Drops Leading Technology Brands for State Purchases
Reuters
U.S. brands Cisco, Apple, Intel, McAfee and Citrix Systems may be the first to suffer.
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02.23.15In China, Oscars Ceremony Touches Nerves Over Hong Kong, Snowden
Washington Post
Common spoke about dreams of better lives, including “people in Hong Kong fighting for democracy."
Caixin Media
02.09.15
In China, Quantum Communications Comes of Age
This may be a quantum leap year for an initiative that accelerates data transfers close to the speed of light with no hacking threats through so-called quantum communications technology.Within months, China plans to open the world's longest...
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01.07.15North Korean Defector: ‘Bureau 121’ Hackers Operating in China
CNN
On the streets of the neon-lit Chinese city of Shenyang, you'll find a restaurant, hotel, and other businesses owned and operated by the North Korean government. You'll also find a secret network of North Korean hackers, known as Bureau...
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12.03.14
Warring State: China’s Cybersecurity Strategy
Center for a New American Security
Research Associate Amy Chang explores the political, economic, and military objectives of China’s cybersecurity apparatus; reveals drivers and intentions of Chinese activity in cyberspace; and analyzes the development of Beijing’s cybersecurity...
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08.07.14China Cracks Down on Messaging Apps
Wall Street Journal
China says rules aim to 'Help Build a Clean Cyberspace' and safeguard national security
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07.15.14Chinese Hackers Extending Reach to Smaller U.S. Agencies, Officials Say
New York Times
After years of cyberattacks on the networks of high-profile government targets like the Pentagon, Chinese hackers appear to have turned their attention to far more obscure federal agencies.
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07.09.14Chinese Hackers Pursue Key Data on U.S. Workers
New York Times
Chinese hackers in March broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees, according to senior American officials.
Conversation
07.09.14
The U.S. and China Are At the Table: What’s At Stake?
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew are in Beijing this week for the sixth session of the high level bilateral diplomatic exchange known as the Strategic and Economic Dialogue. We asked contributors what's likely...
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07.07.14From Mountains, Island, Secret Town, China’s Electronic Spy Shop Watches
Wall Street Journal
Using Chinese government websites, academic databases and foreign security expertise, The Wall Street Journal assembled an overview of some secret operations of China's global monitoring organization, the Third Department of the People's...
Culture
07.01.14
Inside the Mind of a Chinese Hacker
In May, the U.S. announced the indictment of five Chinese hackers for breaking into the computers of U.S. companies. The men went by code names like UglyGorilla and KandyGoo. A recent report revealed that the hackers, who worked for Unit 61398 of...
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05.31.14American Businesses in China Feel Heat of a Cyberdispute
New York Times
Chinese officials are ramping up political and economic pressure on the United States following indictments against five members of the Chinese Army on charges of economic cyberespionage.
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05.27.14China Calls Out Cisco For Cyber Snooping
International Business Times
China Youth Daily claimed that Cisco, “carries on intimately with the U.S. government and military, exploiting its market advantage in the Chinese information networks."
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05.26.14Investigation Confirms U.S. Snooping Activities Against China: Report
Xinhua
A Chinese Internet information body said an investigation has confirmed "the existence of snooping activities directed against China" by the U.S., as exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
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05.22.14China Threatens Security Checks for Tech Firms After U.S. Indictments
New York Times
China will establish new procedures to assess potential security problems with Internet technology and services used by sectors “related to national security and the public interest.”
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05.22.14UglyGorilla Hacker Left Tracks, U.S. Cyber-Hunters Say
Bloomberg
Prosecutors building a case against Wang Dong, one of five Chinese military hackers indicted for economic espionage, were helped by Wang’s apparent willingness to break a cardinal rule of spying: Leave no tracks.
Conversation
05.19.14
Is This the Best Response to China’s Cyber-Attacks?
On Monday, the United States Attorney General Eric Holder accused China of hacking American industrial giants such as U.S. Steel and Westinghouse Electric, making unprecedented criminal charges of cyper-espionage against Chinese...
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04.02.14While Warning Of Chinese Cyberthreat, U.S. Launches Its Own Attack
NPR
New documents show that the U.S. National Security Agency penetrated the large Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei, gathering information about its operations.
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01.14.14‘Cultural Threats’ Among Five Focuses of New National Security Panel, Colonel Says
South China Morning Post
Government committee is established to manage western threats to cyber and national security.
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09.26.13Hacker Group in China Linked to Big Cyber Attacks
Reuters
Researchers at Symantec Corp have discovered a group of highly sophisticated hackers operating for hire out of China, a U.S. computer security company said, and it linked them to some of the best-known espionage attacks in recent years...
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08.29.13Cyber-Disconnect at Joint U.S.-China Press Conference
Christian Science Monitor
Defense Secretary Hagel called a new U.S.-China cyberaffairs working group a ‘venue for addressing issues of mutual concern.’ His Chinese counterpart, General Chang Wanquan, denied there was a problem.
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08.13.13Dalai Lama’s Chinese Website Infecting Visitors, Expert Warns
Reuters
A prominent computer security firm has warned that the Dalai Lama’s Chinese-language website has been compromised with malicious software that is infecting computers of visitors with software that could be used for spying.
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08.05.13The Chinese Communist Party Has Embraced the Internet—For Public Polling
Atlantic
Beijing has started to glean political intelligence from the same systems they restrict access to.
Viewpoint
07.10.13
How the Snowden Affair Might End Up Helping U.S.-China Relations
The reason why both Americans and Chinese have become so nostalgic for the great Nixon/Kissinger-Mao Zedong/Zhou Enlai breakthrough in 1972 is because that was the last time that Sino-U.S. relations experienced a dramatic breakthrough. Now, most...
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07.09.13Don’t Let Cyber Security Overshadow Key China-U.S. Dialogue
China Daily
To complete the unprecedented task of forging new-type relationship between the world’s largest developing nation and&...
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07.01.13U.S. to Press China on Cyber Theft: Lew
Reuters
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has said he will keep up pressure on China over cyber security, especially stealing of intellectual property and trade secrets, which he sees as separate from other Internet-related issues between the two...
Conversation
06.18.13
What’s Right or Wrong with This Chinese Stance on Edward Snowden?
For today’s ChinaFile Conversation we asked contributors to react to the following excerpt from an op-ed published on Monday June 17 in the Global Times about Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old American contract intelligence analyst who last...
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06.13.13
Who’d You Rather Be Watched By: China or the U.S.?
Reports of U.S. gathering data on emails and phone calls have stoked fears of an over-reaching government spying on its citizens. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei worries that China will use the U.S. as an example to bolster its argument for surveillance on...
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06.12.13NSA surveillance: The US is behaving like China
Guardian
Officials always think what they do is necessary, and firmly believe they do what is best for the state and the people. But the lesson that people should learn from history is the need to limit state power, says Ai Weiwei.
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06.12.13Inside the NSA's Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group
Foreign Policy
According to a number of confidential sources, a highly secretive unit of the National Security Agency (NSA), called the Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), has successfully penetrated Chinese computer and telecommunications systems...
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06.11.13Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet (Video)
Council on Foreign Relations
The C.F.R.-sponsored Independent Task Force report finds that as more people and services become interconnected and dependent on the Internet, societies are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks.
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06.07.13Getting China to Talk About Cyberespionage
Washington Post
There’s plenty of nasty stuff in cyberspace that both countries probably can’t control, but Mr. Xi could agree to a sustained and deeper engagement on the topic, perhaps with an accelerated pace of bilateral working groups.