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China and the US, who had crossed their swords for a 21st Centurys global war are coming to terms with ground realities. It seems that both will, for now, cease fire and stop attacking each others most sophisticated and strategic territory i.e. cyber space. Both have been accusing each other of assaulting this territory which in other words is called hacking. According to Reuters, China has offered on Tuesday to talk with the United States about cyber security amid an escalating war of words between the two sides on computer hacking, but suspicion is as deep in Beijing as it is in Washington about the accusations and counter-accusations. The world's two leading economies have been squaring off for months over the issue of cyber-attacks, each accusing the other of hacking into sensitive government and corporate websites. A U.S. computer security company said last month that a secretive Chinese military unit was likely behind a series of hacking attacks mostly targeting the United States.
U.S. National Security Advisor Tom Donilon called on China to acknowledge the scope of the problem and enter a dialogue with the United States on ways to establish acceptable behavior. China, in response, within hours expressed its readiness to talk. However, China has implied that it would not accept browbeating or coercion in the talks and would engage with the US on the basis of the principles of mutual respect and mutual trust in order to have constructive dialogue and cooperation on this issue with the international community including the United States to maintain the security, openness and peace of the Internet. China claims to the biggest victim of hacking attacks from the US. According to this claim, two major Chinese military websites, including that of the Defence Ministry, were subject to more than 140,000 hacking attacks a month last year, almost two-thirds from the United States.
China and the US all set to negotiate ceasefire in cyber-war
U.S. National Security Advisor Tom Donilon called on China to acknowledge the scope of the problem and enter a dialogue with the United States on ways to establish acceptable behavior. China, in response, within hours expressed its readiness to talk. However, China has implied that it would not accept browbeating or coercion in the talks and would engage with the US on the basis of the principles of mutual respect and mutual trust in order to have constructive dialogue and cooperation on this issue with the international community including the United States to maintain the security, openness and peace of the Internet. China claims to the biggest victim of hacking attacks from the US. According to this claim, two major Chinese military websites, including that of the Defence Ministry, were subject to more than 140,000 hacking attacks a month last year, almost two-thirds from the United States.
China and the US all set to negotiate ceasefire in cyber-war
