Cybersecurity
Obama Says U.S. Ready to Act Against China Over Hacking
- Measures being prepared to respond to economic espionage
- U.S. would win if cyber conflict escalates, Obama says
US President Barack Obama listens to a question from a member of the Business Roundtable at their headquarters in Washington, DC on September 16, 2015.
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A little more than a week before China’s leader arrives at the White House, President Barack Obama escalated the fight over cyberspace, saying the U.S. is readying measures to forcefully demonstrate that economic espionage won’t be tolerated.
It was the first time that the administration publicly, if indirectly, acknowledged the possibility of imposing sanctions or retaliation to counter hacking emanating from China, which has become a serious point of conflict between the world’s two largest economies.