Cybersecurity
Blinken Meets China’s Top Diplomat as Email Hack Roils Ties Anew
- Diplomats meet for about 90 minutes at Asean event in Jakarta
- Two countries are attempting to rebuild communication channels
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken met China’s top foreign policy official as the two countries look to maintain dialog even after ties were roiled anew by allegations that Chinese hackers had breached US officials’ email accounts.
Blinken raised the issue of Chinese hacking when he met Wang Yi in Jakarta, their second meeting in less than two months. The State Department declined to say whether he called out Wang over revelations in the last two days that hackers accessed email accounts at the State and Commerce Departments, including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.