Cybersecurity
China Working to Halt Commercial Cyberwar in Deal With Germany
- Deal follows similar no-spy accords China struck with U.S., UK
- German security expert says Mittelstand firms targeted
Berlin
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China and Germany agreed to work on stopping economic cyber spying between the two nations amid mounting concern that the thousands of small- and medium-sized companies that form the backbone of German industry are ill-equipped to repel hacking attacks.
Similar no-spy agreements exist between China and the U.S. as well as the U.K., Merkel said Thursday in Beijing. Germany, the Asian nation’s biggest European trade partner, seeks such a deal “very quickly,” and China agreed, she told reporters after talks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.