US officials have pressed their Chinese counterparts to improve co-operation on cyber-economic espionage in a historic first round of talks yesterday aimed at stopping the activity.
Guo Shengkun, China’s state councillor and minister of public security, met Loretta Lynch, US attorney-general, Jeh Johnson, homeland security secretary, and representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US intelligence community in the gathering at the US justice department.
They discussed the timeliness and quality of responses to requests for information for malicious cyber activity in what US officials described as a candid conversation on ways to improve co-operation.