Ahead of President Xi Jingping's state visit to the US, the two countries are hoping to agree the basics for the equivalent of an arms-control deal for cyberspace. The US and China have been at odds over a range of issues in recent years, including cyber espionage, cyber-espionage by China, China's military expansion into disputed islands in the South China Sea, and Beijing's efforts
Ahead of President Xi Jingping's state visit to the US, the two countries are hoping to agree the basics for the equivalent of an arms-control deal for cyberspace. The New York Times reports that the focus of the deal will be to stop infrastructure attacks, but will not cover intellectual property or ID theft, or essentailly any of the current "normal" cyber-espionage attacks.