Washington sweats at China's cyber threat

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NC29Ad01.html

By Benjamin A Shobert
Asia Times Online
March 29, 2012

Monday's Congressional United States-China Economic and Security Review 
Commission (USCC) again turned its attention to what is becoming an 
increasing focal point for it: China's cyber-security practices.

Jason Healey, the director of the Cyber-Statecraft Initiative for the 
Atlantic Council, reflected both the frustration and the fear of many in 
America's policy community when he stated, "The threat of Chinese 
espionage is so critical that the commander of our military 
cyber-defenses has called it the 'the biggest transfer of wealth through 
theft and piracy in the history of mankind'. It is so bad, in fact, the 
United States may need to regulate the private sector and our companies 
need to submit to government monitoring."

Viewed by many in the China policy community as unnecessarily 
provocative and hostile towards Beijing, the USCC has been one of a 
handful of groups within the American government that have been 
researching and reporting on what they see as a long-standing problem 
largely of China's making in this area.

As the USCC and many of those who testified on Monday believe, China's 
cyber-security practices have long been egregious and now hold the 
potential not only to continue facilitating the transfer of intellectual 
property that Healey referenced, but also to put America's strategic 
interests at risk in the event of conflict.

As Healey shared on Monday, "The Defense Science Board report that 
discussed hardware and software leakages, intrusions, supply chain 
attacks, and risk levels was researched in 1969. And yet we're still 
struggling."

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