Here are the U.S. China Commission’s cyber recommendations
The U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission came out with its biannual report today and as expected it had a whole section dedicated to China’s efforts at cyber, espionage, intellectual property theft and military capabilities. While most of the report’s contents on Chinese cyber efforts recap what has appeared in the media over the ...
The U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission came out with its biannual report today and as expected it had a whole section dedicated to China's efforts at cyber, espionage, intellectual property theft and military capabilities.
The U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission came out with its biannual report today and as expected it had a whole section dedicated to China’s efforts at cyber, espionage, intellectual property theft and military capabilities.
While most of the report’s contents on Chinese cyber efforts recap what has appeared in the media over the last few years, it does make three recommendations for action — the last of which urges congress to revisit the effectiveness of laws banning industrial espionage. As we all know, senior U.S. defense officials have been warning that China is stealing incredibly large amounts of intellectual property from American businesses every year via cyber espionage.
Here are the commission’s recommendations:
- Congress should order a DoD report on how the Pentagon’s buying regulations allow it to ban foreign products for use in weapons "where there is a concern as to the potential impact of cyber vulnerabilities."
- "Relevant Congressional committees" should conduct an in depth assessment of Chinese cyber espionage practices and report the findings in an unclassified format.
- "Congress should conduct a review of existing legal penalties for companies found to engage in, or benefit from, industrial espionage."
John Reed is a national security reporter for Foreign Policy. He comes to FP after editing Military.com’s publication Defense Tech and working as the associate editor of DoDBuzz. Between 2007 and 2010, he covered major trends in military aviation and the defense industry around the world for Defense News and Inside the Air Force. Before moving to Washington in August 2007, Reed worked in corporate sales and business development for a Swedish IT firm, The Meltwater Group in Mountain View CA, and Philadelphia, PA. Prior to that, he worked as a reporter at the Tracy Press and the Scotts Valley Press-Banner newspapers in California. His first story as a professional reporter involved chasing escaped emus around California’s central valley with Mexican cowboys armed with lassos and local police armed with shotguns. Luckily for the giant birds, the cowboys caught them first and the emus were ok. A New England native, Reed graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a dual degree in international affairs and history.
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