Donilon Says China Cyber Attacks Hurt Bid for Better Ties

China is waging a campaign of cyber espionage against U.S. companies that is threatening to derail President Barack Obama’s second-term effort to improve ties, National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon said.

The widespread theft of intellectual property and trade secrets through “cyber intrusions emanating from China at a very large scale” has become a point of contention with the Chinese government, Donilon said yesterday in a speech at the Asia Society in New York.