China, Canada vow not to conduct cyberattacks on private sector
China and
Canada
have signed an agreement vowing not to conduct state-sponsored
cyberattacks against each other aimed at stealing trade secrets or other
confidential business information.
The agreement was reached during talks between Canada's national security and intelligence adviser, Daniel Jean, and senior
communist party official Wang Yongqing, a statement dated June 22 on the Canadian government's website showed.
"This is something that three or four years ago (Beijing) would not
even have entertained in the conversation," an unnamed Canadian
government official told the Globe and Mail, which first reported the
agreement.
The new agreement only covers economic cyber espionage, which includes
hacking corporate secrets and proprietary technology, but does not deal
with state-sponsored cyber spying for intelligence gathering.
"The two sides agreed that neither country's government would conduct
or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property,
including trade secrets or other confidential business information, with
the intent of providing competitive advantages to companies or
commercial sectors," the Canadian government said in the statement.
A statement released by China's official Xinhua news agency last week
about the meeting contained broadly similar wording on cyber attacks.
Some countries, including the
United States,
have long accused Beijing of sponsoring hacking attacks on companies in
an effort to acquire sensitive foreign technology. China denies those
accusations, and says that it is also a victim of hacking.
In 2015, China and the United States came to a similar understanding
on corporate cyber espionage, after the Obama administration had mulled
targeted sanctions against Chinese individuals and companies for cyber
attacks against US commercial targets.
US cyber security executives and government advisers said breaches
attributed to China-based groups had dropped around the time of that
agreement.
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